A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

Since its arrival on the Martian surface five years ago, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy scouring the Red Planet for ...

Scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method hinges on worlds that look nothing like Earth, and gases rarely considered in the search for ...

Analysis of Moroccan stalagmites reveals that the Sahara received increased rainfall between 8,700 and 4,300 years ago, ...

Astronomers have been looking for exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star, the nearest solitary star to Earth at just 5.96 ...

Using in part the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S.

The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...

The incredible aftermath of the Chicxulub asteroid impact—one of the most cataclysmic events in Earth’s history—is unfolding ...

For a century, astronomers have been studying Barnard's Star in the hope of finding planets around it. First discovered by E.