The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the ...

A 2014 astronaut photo shows a pair of volcanic lakes appearing to stare up into space from the Chiltepe Peninsula of ...

Researchers who examined data from Perseverance found that the rocks contained organics that could have been the precursors ...

A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...

Three celestial bodies are about to meet up for one night in September in a conjunction that should be widely visible in the U.S. – including Florida.

The idea was that high-powered lasers would propel tiny probes to 20 percent of the speed of light, impelling them with ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found two chemicals on rocks in a Martian crater that could have been produced by microbes.

Madison Blue Spring State Park in tiny Lee, Florida, is the kind of spot that makes you question whether you’ve accidentally stumbled through a portal to some fantasy realm where water doesn’t play by ...

As the Perseverance rover traversed an ancient river valley in Mars' Jezero Crater back in July 2024, it drilled into the surface and extracted a sample from a unique, striped rock called Cheyava ...

Dinosaurs' extinction "re-engineered" Earth's surface, according to new research. The reptiles had such an "immense" impact ...

Viking consisted of two twin orbiters and landers, with experimental chambers in the landers to conduct three biology ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...