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 ...

Wildflowers are blooming in the Atacama Desert, an inhospitable stretch of land west of the Andes Mountains that normally ...

Once one of the planet’s driest landscapes, the Sahara Desert may become far wetter by the end of this century. The Sahara ...

Oct. 8 (UPI) --International space agencies say an asteroid zipped by Earth closer than a large number of satellites currently in orbit, but was not detected until hours later. The European Space ...

I stumbled upon Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness by accident during a wrong turn on a dusty backroad, and I swear my jaw hit the steering wheel. This remote desert expanse in northwestern New Mexico looks ...

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 ...

I stumbled upon Castle Hot Springs during a wrong turn that turned out to be the best kind of detour. Tucked deep within Arizona’s rugged Bradshaw Mountains, this palm-fringed oasis seems to rise ...

This striking satellite image shows the stark difference between a giant field of sandy "stars" and a barren rocky wilderness in the Sahara Desert. The contrasting biomes also overlap with the border ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...