A metallic-looking rock sitting on the Martian surface has jolted a mission that was already rewriting what we know about the Red Planet. After years of scanning dust, dunes and ancient lakebeds, a ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing that the most revealing relics of ancient organisms are not their shapes ...

Tucked away near the tiny town of Panaca in eastern Nevada, Cathedral Gorge is the kind of place that makes you wonder if you’ve accidentally driven through a portal to another dimension—one where ...

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

Scientists have found new evidence suggesting that interstellar 3I/ATLAS is not an alien spaceship, as one conspiracy theory ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a unique planet in another star system that’s shaped like a lemon. The lopsided Jupiter-style planet is so bizarre that it may blur the ...

"Our IFPA map of Antarctica’s subglacial landscape reveals that an enormous level of detail about the subglacial topography ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away. Credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech illustration In Apple TV’s ...

Americans are becoming more open to the idea that aliens have visited Earth, according to a series of polls that show belief in alien visitation has been steadily on the rise since 2012. Moreover, ...