Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

A 4.4-billion-year-old zircon crystal discovered in Australia may be the oldest surviving piece of Earth.

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

If you think you've seen all the planet has to offer, think again. Of the many national parks across the globe, these offer ...

Perseverance explores Jezero Crater’s rim, uncovering diverse rocks that reveal Mars’ ancient geology and possible signs of ...

To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...

The Curiosity rover identified hidden caches of the mineral siderite, which could help explain why Mars lost its habitable climate.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a British-US team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet’s ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Samples drilled by the Curiosity rover on Mars have revealed abundant signs of a carbon cycle that remained hidden from ...