Seven Rasmussen, an astrobiologist and author of the new book Cloudy with a Chance of Starships, gives readers a tour of the ...

Some ancient San star stories have faded, but practical knowledge of Venus, the Moon, and the seasons still survives in South ...

Spain will see its first total eclipse since 1905 on Wednesday. Here's the science, the safety rules, and when India will witness one.

Lunar rovers can gather valuable information as they travel, but they have limited capacity to store rock and soil samples.

NASA-funded studies suggest Earth’s climate has been influenced by both the Sun’s travels through dense regions of the Milky ...

A new study reveals that microbial life deep within Earth has persisted and repeatedly flourished through hundreds of ...

What happens to a space rock as it falls through Earth's atmosphere and becomes a meteorite? By studying 75 meteorite falls captured on video and in photographs, researchers identified seven distinct ...

Deep beneath Mars, scientists have found evidence of enormous magmatic systems once thought to require Earth-like plate ...

When lightning strikes, it superheats the air around it and creates a shock wave that we hear as thunder. But thunder doesn’t just travel through the atmosphere to our ears. When that energy reaches ...

A global study reveals that permafrost is thawing across the Arctic, Antarctica, and mountain regions, threatening ...

UC Riverside scientists have developed a way to identify where Earth’s biggest earthquakes are most likely to occur.

Studying 75 meteorites falling to Earth, scientists have identified the seven stages a space rock goes through as it crashes through our atmosphere.