No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the red planet never ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

An asteroid strike could cool the planet's climate, harm crops, and disrupt food supply, but it may also increase plankton ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up ...

Just half a degree rise of global warming will triple the size of the area of Earth that is considered to be too hot for ...