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

The rover's latest discoveries, including pure sulfur stones and sprawling mineral "spiderwebs," unravel new mysteries of ...

Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar soil and rock that China retrieved from ...

University of Maryland researchers have found intriguing new evidence of ancient seafloor deep beneath the Earth's surface.

The Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico transmitted the most powerful known interstellar message in 1974. The facility’s ...

• SpaceX is set to launch Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, on its sixth test flight from South Texas. • A ...

Roughly 233 million years ago, Earth’s continents were fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it was on the ...

Scientists recently discovered amber fragments that suggest the snow-covered continent of Antarctica could have once been a ...

Interactions between Earth and the solar system have profoundly shaped the planet’s history, influencing evolution and ...

Beetles are an evolutionary success, with rove beetles' diversification largely due to their unique tergal gland that synthesizes defensive chemicals. This adaptation, evolving over millions of years, ...

Over the course of the planet's 4.5 billion-year history, several supercontinents have formed and broken up, a result of churning and circulation in the Earth's mantle, which makes up 84% of the ...