NASA's Magellan orbiter launched from Florida in 1989 helped scientists discover a vast underground lava tube on Venus in a ...

Things Boomers learned in school that turned out to be wrong Baby Boomers sat through countless lessons that seemed ironclad at the time. Teachers confidently taught ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

Scientists say warming is increasing faster than at any time in at least 3 million years. There is no guide for what comes ...

Organic compounds found in Mars rocks are too abundant to rule out the possibility of Martian life in the red planet’s history, NASA scientists say. In March of 2025, NASA’s Curiosity rover ...

Forty years ago, Voyager 2 flew past Uranus and observed radiation levels that defied explanation. Now, scientists may ...

Known as the endangerment finding, the decision is the legal framework that allows the EPA to regulate emissions. Its reversal could upend many climate change policies.

Life on Earth may exist thanks to an incredible stroke of luck — a chemical sweet spot that most planets miss during their ...

As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was ...

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has ...

NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have discovered evidence for life on the Red Planet after all, according to scientists who ...

The gas giant’s shape and size, previously known only from data collected more than 45 years ago, have been updated at last.