The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...

New research suggests the Moon still lives and that it isn't just a hunk of dead, cooled molten rock like scientists used to ...

Mars haunts us as a vision of a planet gone wrong. It was once warm and wet, with rivers flowing across its surface and ...

"It's been such a puzzle that there was liquid water on Mars, because Mars is further from the sun, and also, the sun was ...

Deep beneath the Earth’s surface, a monumental geological event is unfolding. Scientists from the University of Göttingen have discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate, once the ocean floor between ...

Belgian scientists from the Free University of Brussels (VUB) have announced the results of an expedition in the Iraqi ...

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life, but also the salty remains of an ...

An international team of researchers has suggested a "wild" new theory to explain the creation of these mysterious ancient ...

The scroll, found in the Judean desert, has been painstakingly translated to reveal a record of a Roman court case.

Visiting forgotten observatories is like stepping back in time. These restored astronomy temples, once nearly lost, now shine ...