How a booming smuggling market led a 15-ton iron space rock to be stolen, sold by terrorists and hidden somewhere in China ...
Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...
Next time you explore a beach or a desert, look down at the sand. You might spot patches of small ripples just a few centimeters tall. Wind can shape these miniature dunes in less than half an hour ...
When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...
"The detection of life on Mars is a persistent top priority for explorers of many disciplines, and it is the top science ...
One mission would involve a full 300 sols on the Red Planet, with the goal of finding extinct or current life on Mars. But ...
A new report published Tuesday, titled “A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars,” represents the answer from ...
An international team led by researchers from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at The University of Hong Kong ...
Tonight, the waning gibbous moon will be near Jupiter and Gemini's brightest star, Pollux, to form an isosceles triangle with ...
Surface-bound gels may have offered the structure and chemistry needed for life to take hold on Earth—and possibly elsewhere.
Earth and planetary sciences professor Andrew Fisher will lead hydrogeology simulations to study how water, heat, and ...
A network of powerful ground-based telescopes captured rare starspot-crossing events on TOI-3884b, revealing cooler patches ...