NASA researchers have discovered evidence of tectonic activity on Venus by re-examining decades-old radar data. The findings suggest that Venus's surf ...

Recent observations by JWST of TRAPPIST-1 c ruled out a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere, indicating that the planet is not as ...

Precipitation, to be clear, includes any variant – not just water, but snow or freezing rain and other forms of water falling ...

Being in the outer atmosphere, on the surface there was almost no ... can significantly disrupt the climate of a terrestrial (Earth-like) planet," said Sainsbury-Martinez, "with the changes ...

Research in Nature Communications suggests the contribution of ocean biology to climate regulation is more complex than ...

China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, in the early hours of Thursday, an endeavour to shed ...

Life thrives far beneath the surface, in places once thought too harsh for survival. In the shadows of Earth’s crust, tiny ...

Scientists have been arguing about the origin of strange streaks on Mars since the earliest missions to the Red Planet.

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well ...

A new study reveals Mars’s missing water may have slowly seeped underground, becoming trapped in ancient aquifers beneath the surface.

Although there is no exact comparison to any known bacterium on Earth, the space bacteria shares some key genetic ...

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, ...