“Such soft-tissue structures are extremely rare in the fossil record – and the further back we look in Earth’s history, the ...

The discovery of the molecules was made with Nasa’s Curiosity rover, which examined a Martian rock named Cumberland. This is ...

When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...

Why do some places wait 1,000 years to see a total solar eclipse while others get two in a decade? The surprising orbital ...

Rare earth elements power AI, EVs and wind turbines. Learn why REEs matter, how China dominates processing, and where India fits in the global supply chain.

The Apollo missions changed how scientists understand the moon. Returning with Artemis could help solve some of the biggest ...

Samples taken from an ancient Mars rock may indicate that ancient life once existed on the Red Planet, according to a study ...

Researchers at the University of Manchester have created a new system that could help stop satellites from crashing into each ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman is taking aim at former leadership of the space agency he now heads for the botched Boeing Starliner mission.

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.