David Attenborough’s 'A Life on Our Planet' pairs devastating truth with enduring optimism, reminding us that the power to ...

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...

What can craters on Mars teach scientists about the Red Planet’s climate history? This is what a recent study published in ...

One of the big questions about Mars is how wet was it in the past, and why is it so dry today? A new study published online ...

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

Have you ever turned a corner on a California highway and suddenly felt like you’d been teleported to another planet entirely? That’s the exact sensation awaiting you at Red Rock Canyon State Park in ...

GLASSBORO - Dr. Harold Connolly will wait seven years for his asteroid samples to return from space on a $1 billion mission. In the meantime, the bow-tied geologist and admitted geek, is building a ...

Clues hidden in Martian rock suggest the red planet may have once hosted an ocean. Earth’s own ancient rivers are helping ...

For decades, scientists have been curious about how much water Mars once had and what led to its gradual transformation into ...

"That would be a really cool discovery by itself," University of Iowa planetary geologist Valerie Payre said. "That would ...

Understanding its current, single-lid geology could help scientists figure out why the two planets' fates diverged, and ...