Mars, often imagined as a lifeless desert battered by radiation and cold, holds within its crust the haunting memory of a ...

Imagine a world where dense mangrove forests meet churning tides, and the air hangs heavy with salt and mystery. In this ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found rocks rich in carbonate minerals. These minerals are like Earth’s limestone and act as ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

Thick clay deposits on Mars hint at long-lived lakes that may have sheltered early life - and preserved clues beneath layers ...

Forbes How To Track The Dead Soviet Lander Falling Back To Earth Soon By Eric Mack Cosmos 482 Likely to Land With a Splash or Distant Crash But with those big caveats in mind, it seems probable ...

Sydney: As the world's only surviving egg-laying mammals, Australasia's platypus and four echidna species are among the most extraordinary animals on Earth. They are also very different from each ...

Such discoveries suggest water once flowed beneath Mars' surface. On Earth, sulfate minerals can preserve microscopic fossils of microbes. Finding similar structures on Mars could indicate past life.

We currently know of no other natural processes that would produce either of them. We find DMS and DMDS in Earth's atmosphere as trace gases, with concentrations of about 1 part per billion.

The Japanese probe Hayabusa2 brought nearly 5.5 grams of asteroid material to Earth in 2020. Both of these missions’ samples are remarkably similar to each other and most closely resemble ...

Evaporites—the legacy of an ancient brine Ever since the Bennu samples returned to Earth on September 24, 2023, we and our colleagues on four continents have spent hundreds of hours studying them.

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...