SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

The GoMars project is attempting something planetary scientists have wanted for decades: a continuous, high fidelity ...

Scientists cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implications for how we create the ...

Electrical sparks inside Martian dust devils have been detected for the first time, reshaping how scientists understand the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered towering sand formations on Mars that defy scientific expectations. The discovery suggests powerful winds once shaped the planet, challenging beliefs that Mars ...

Mars at sunset reveals dozens of razor-thin atmospheric layers in stunning detail, helping scientists map dust and ice ...

News of the breakup of a leading science institution rippled through an annual gathering of Earth, ocean and space scientists ...

Mars changed from a blue world with water to a red desert because its atmosphere escaped into space over billions of years.

Mars is rich in ice, both on and under its surface—with more predicted to lie farther below its dusty exterior. If future ...

What is essential for this problem is a global consciousness [...] that transcends our exclusive identifications with the generational and political groupings into which by accident we have been born.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since it landed there in spectacular fashion nearly five ...