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

This is the message of the sixth issue of the annual "State of the Climate" report. The report was prepared by an ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

With plans for 25 international hubs, the Earth BioGenome Project is poised to increase global genomics capacity and deliver high-quality reference genomes, argues Dr Paul Flicek, The Jackson ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) announces the release of its annual omnibus solicitation for basic and ...

A small, giraffe-size asteroid called 2025 TF came closer to Earth than some satellites on Wednesday (Oct. 1), stunning astronomers who first spotted it hours later. Measuring an estimated 3.3 to 9.8 ...

Our planet is sick, and its life-threatening symptoms are getting worse, a new report warns. Earth has been pushed past multiple physical and chemical boundaries crucial for keeping the world a ...

A team of geophysicists say that an enormous mass shifted deep beneath the Earth’s surface 18 years ago. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters last month, a team ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." While the buzzy sci-fi series is science fiction (obviously), Dr. Sward says there's plenty of real ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

Perseverance rover data shows Jezero Crater once held a calm lake, leaving behind mudstones rich in organic-linked minerals. The presence of iron-phosphate and iron-sulfide nodules suggests processes ...

New research finds the disappearance of glaciers in the Sierra Nevada will be unprecedented in the human history of North America. The mountain glaciers of Yosemite National Park are projected to melt ...