Data from China's Zhurong rover has revealed what appears to be an ancient shoreline streaking through Mars' northern ...
Evidence from Colorado suggests glaciers once covered Earth to the equator, supporting the Snowball Earth theory. This ...
Quantum-science advances using AI can measure very small surfaces and distances -- opening a world of medical, manufacturing and other applications.
University of Maryland researchers have found intriguing new evidence of ancient seafloor deep beneath the Earth's surface.
Even the balmy tropics may have once been crushed by colossal masses of ice.
The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...
Argentina's El Ojo is said to harbor UFOs and the ghosts of ancient deities, but as far as scientists can tell, the island is ...
For spinning spheres, centrifugal force is maximized at the equator, where the rotational speed is highest. The amount of the ...
Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...
On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...
There's nothing innate about the Earth or its atmosphere that marks the boundaries of low Earth orbit. This is a distinction ...
A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, ...