A team of researchers led by the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), ...

In June, a piece of rock flew at extremely high speeds and struck a house in McDonough, fireball flashing in the skies over Georgia included.

The first astronauts who walk on Mars are now being told to go as planetary detectives, not just pathfinders. A sweeping new ...

If future missions confirm sustained heat flow at both poles, Enceladus would strengthen its position as one of the more accessible environments for detecting extraterrestrial life within the Solar ...

A thick layer of more than 12 miles of rock may explain why Bermuda seems to float above the surrounding ocean.

The blueprint outlines the equipment, landing-site criteria and environmental constraints that will determine what is ...

A NASA spacecraft that has been doing laps around Mars for more than a decade has gone silent – and no one knows why. The ...

How a booming smuggling market led a 15-ton iron space rock to be stolen, sold by terrorists and hidden somewhere in China ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...

One mission would involve a full 300 sols on the Red Planet, with the goal of finding extinct or current life on Mars. But ...

A new report published Tuesday, titled “A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars,” represents the answer from ...