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

Scientists have identified a promising new way to detect life on faraway planets, hinging on worlds that look nothing like ...

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

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

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

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

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

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.