New research shows that an intense regional dust storm transported unusually high amounts of water vapor into Mars’ upper atmosphere, boosting hydrogen escape. The discovery reshapes understanding of ...

Tiny aerosol particles in the air play a big role in regulating how much sunlight our planet absorbs or reflects, and how clouds form above us. In a recent study, researchers found that extreme heat ...

The science of decomposition on Earth is already rather gruesome, but decomposing on the moon is both gruesome, as well as more than a little strange.

If you’re interested in extraterrestrial life, these past few years have given an embarrassment of places to look, even in ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS appears to have started spewing huge amounts of water and other organics into space.

I n 2013, deep within a Canadian mine, geologists discovered a fracture that contained the oldest known water on Earth. Hidden nearly 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) below the surface, the ancient water had ...

AI ambition versus climate responsibility is a false binary. It only appears real when we treat the two as separate ...

Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

Planet K2-18b, an apparent water world 124 light years away, has been seen as a promising location in the search for aliens, ...

Delta on Mars. A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another ...

NASA’s long search for liquid water on Mars has produced its most significant result yet: evidence of vast reservoirs buried ...

Antarctica is home to many mysteries, but one of the strangest is an enormous 'gravity hole' deep beneath the ice. Now, ...