"We did the simplest thing that could be done — we just mapped them and pieced them together." ...

What can today's scientists learn about astronomical phenomena from ancient texts?

Water discoveries in space happen all the time. But this one’s actually a big deal, and not just because some scientists got excited (though they absolutely did). NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory ...

Apparently, the early solar system invented snacks, crafts, and chaos long before inventing life.

Was Mars a dry and cold planet billions of years ago like we see today, or was it warmer, wetter, and possibly having the conditions for life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in ...

Timothy Nash, one of the passengers on the flight, had partnered with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa to bring a fossilized Australopithecus sediba clavicle (estimated to be up to ...

Mars scientists are wrestling with a problem. Ample evidence says ancient Mars was sometimes wet, with water flowing and pooling on the planet’s surface. Yet, the ancient sun was about one-third less ...

Virgin Galactic has sparked controversy after transporting the fossils of two ancient humans into space. The fossils of the two extinct hominin species were under the custodianship of the University ...

A mysterious layer of space dust that coated Earth millions of years ago could be shrapnel from asteroids that smashed into the moon, according to a new analysis of soil from below the sea floor. In ...