For decades, Jupiter’s moon Europa has been cast as one of the solar system’s best bets for alien life, a world with a global ...

The Acasta Gneiss is known as one of the oldest rocks on the Earth, estimated to be about 4 billion years old, located in the ...

Far below the postcard beaches and turquoise shallows of Bermuda, scientists have mapped a colossal slab of rock that should ...

Long-term satellite measurements show that Earth’s magnetic field is changing faster and more unevenly than expected, driven ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

China confirms the first helium-rich gas supergiant in the Tarim Basin: Hetianhe rewrites the map of strategic resources.

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Biju Dharmapalan [email protected] As the world steps into 2026, science is no longer a quiet enterprise unfolding ...

A colossal Martian volcano defies everything we know about planetary geology. Hidden clues beneath its frozen summit hint at ...

Scientists discovered massive hydrothermal vents off Greece's Milos—underwater chimneys and cracks that spew boiling hot, gas ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

Even if future studies show that Europa’s ocean is lifeless today, Byrne sees value in the exploration. “I’m not upset if we don’t find life on this particular moon,” he said. “I’m confident that ...