An international team of researchers has published a report on how Mars samples should be handled from a scientific point of ...

Mars is an inhospitable desert planet. Billions of years ago, things were different. In Jezero Crater, for example, fed by a ...

The method, developed by researchers at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, uses images of dune surfaces to estimate ...

It’s hard to picture now, but long before the Sahara became a sea of sand, it was an actual sea—a shallow, tropical lagoon teeming with life. Today, in Egypt’s Western Desert, where the heat warps the ...

A chemical "anomaly" revealed through an analysis of meteorites may have led to finding the first existing evidence of "proto ...

Fungi’s evolutionary roots stretch far deeper than once believed — up to 1.4 billion years ago, long before plants or animals ...