Research from the University of Gottingen reveals that trace amounts of precious metals, including gold and ruthenium, are ...

Despite the lander's brief lifespan, the project represented a watershed moment in planetary science, opening a window to one of the most hostile environments in the solar system. The Harsh Reality of ...

Scientists introduced MIST, a new algorithm that quickly identifies minerals from chemical data. MIST automates a traditionally slow, expert-dependent process, streamlining exploration […] ...

Scientists think the famous 1977 radio burst wasn’t aliens—but you can help confirm the truth using a low-cost radio ...

The largest of the 10 catastrophic threats now facing humanity is global poisoning, yet it receives less attention from science, government and society than all the others.

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

Any quakes, or even rumbles from meteorite impacts, propagate outward from their point of origin, bouncing around inside a planet or moon or star before stilling to quietness. The way they travel ...

The InSight lander registered the seismic waves of eight separate marsquakes as it traveled through the Red Planet’s mantle.

Simple organics: Amino acids, some of which were delivered to Earth via meteorites and comets, are introduced to observe whether they could concentrate within mineral membranes. Previous studies ...

Locked beneath a single-plate crust, Mars' mantle holds a frozen record of the red planet's primordial past, according to a new study of Martian ...

Earth is so far the only known planet on which life exists—with liquid water and a stable atmosphere. However, the conditions were not conducive to life when it formed. The gas-dust cloud from which ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant ...