Mars has a new showpiece for planetary scientists, and it looks uncannily like a butterfly frozen mid-flight. A fresh set of ...

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

On Dec. 9, 1979, scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox, a disease which killed an estimated 300 million ...

Bizarre 'bleached' rocks on the surface of Mars suggest that the Red Planet was once a tropical oasis, a new study reveals.

In 1941, an Alton officer directs traffic at Broadway and Piasa ...

As humanity prepares to take its first steps on Mars, a comprehensive report released today (Dec. 9) from the National ...

Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS erupted with violent ice volcanoes, shifting from quiet ice ball to active body, sparking ...

In a cosmic spectacle that has astronomers buzzing, the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS streaks through our solar system, its ...

The 417-day-long experiment, known as LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), looked at the light signatures released as particles collide with ...