Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get started on planets throughout a solar system. The discovery of ...

Wings may be the obvious choice when studying the connection between dinosaurs and birds, but a pair of paleontologists prefer drumsticks. That part of the leg, they say, is where fibular reduction ...

The Planetary Boundaries framework is a pivotal tool for tackling the climate crisis and safeguarding humanity's future on Earth. For the first time, the full story of the Planetary Boundaries is now ...

With eight billion people, we use a lot of the Earth's resources in ways that are likely unsustainable. Klaus Hubacek, ...

From an orbit of over 186,000 miles from Earth, to Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, ...

Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift in cosmic terms - in a discovery that challenges the current understanding ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of ...

Its aim is to create greater capacity for developing and delivering planetary health education that is co-created with communities in climate-vulnerable regions in Asia ...

The Geological Society of America has awarded the SETI Institute's Dr. Janice Bishop the prestigious 2024 Arthur L. Day Medal ...

Scientists have traced the origins of the Lafayette Meteorite back to Mars, dating its water-altered minerals to 742 million ...

Plus, as a reporter and editor, I’d known Louis Friedman, both when he was also a planetary scientist at JPL, and then when ...