NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified Phippsaksla, a metal-rich rock likely to be an iron-nickel meteorite formed ...

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

NASA’s latest Mars findings have pushed the search for ancient life from speculation into a disciplined, data-rich debate ...

Driving east on I-94, most travelers have their sights set on Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota or Yellowstone to the west. They zoom right past this otherworldly landscape without a ...

Snapshots from six computer simulations illustrating the distinct tectonic regimes of terrestrial planets, including the newly discovered ...

Yes, we are once again facing a cold space race, only instead of the Soviet bloc, today it is the United States against China ...

At 900 meters, the giant crater in southern China is three times larger than the previous Holocene recorder holder.

In preparation for analyzing Mars samples, scientists are turning to a surprising source: Iceland’s mudrocks. These rocks, ...

I/Atlas isn’t the only unusual space rock to be spotted recently, as NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover has spotted a possible ...

NASA's Perseverance rover found a peculiar rock on Mars. Its composition suggests it may have originated from beyond our ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has suggested that this rock may be a meteorite, containing elements typically associated with iron-nickel meteorites formed in the cores of large asteroids.

To say that a trip from Earth to Mars is merely a long one would be a massive understatement. On July 30, 2020, when the ...