Europa’s buried ocean has made it one of the most exciting places to search for life beyond Earth. However, new calculations suggest its seafloor may be calm, cold, and largely inactive, with little ...

Birds are a barometer of the health of water sources, habitats, and air quality. A notable example is the use of canaries in ...

Deep beneath our feet, something extraordinary is happening. Scientists have discovered that changes in Earth's core are ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

If ancient Martian lakes persisted under seasonal ice rather than thick permanent ice, features on Mars that have been ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

The first study from GreenDrill — a project co-led by the University at Buffalo to collect rocks and sediment buried beneath the ...

For more than a century, visitors to a remote California lakebed have stared at long, ruler-straight tracks etched into the ...

Greenland, the largest island on Earth, possesses some of the richest stores of natural resources anywhere in the world.

The giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, yet none have captured the interest and imagination of astronomers and ...

Researchers find that Earth’s orbital rhythms influenced sediment and organic preservation in Jurassic shale deposits.

Antarctica’s New Year’s celebration is unlike any other: every January 1 scientists physically move the South Pole. This is ...