Many people imagine the space between the stars as an empty, cold infinity. In reality, it is teeming with extraordinary ...

The question of how life could have emerged is one of the most long-standing mysteries in science. In a new study, the ...

These discoveries pave the way for reevaluating geochemical and geophysical observations, enabling more precise reconstruction of Earth's thermal and chemical history since its formation. More broadly ...

The core of the Red Planet may be filled with sulfur. New experiments have shown that the core of Mars formed much faster ...

A new scientific study has revealed that airborne dust particles play a much bigger role in air pollution and climate change ...

The Webb telescope detects a clear, hydrogen-rich atmosphere, as well as water vapor, on the hot sub-Neptune planet TOI-421 B ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

Glitter specks often end up far from party tables and greeting cards. You can even spot them glinting on beaches, washed in with the tide.

On a quest to understand how planets are formed – and ultimately how Earth fits into the cosmic picture – astronomers have ...

When the wind blew from the direction of the colony, ammonia levels spiked, sometimes reaching 1,000 times above normal ...

A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it began. How life arose remains a looming ...