Scientists reached Antarctic bedrock after drilling 1.7 miles through more than a million years of ice deposits on the white continent, they announced Jan. 9.

A rare meteorite recovered from Alaska is prompting scientists to rethinkhow Earth got its water. New findings suggest our ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil, according to a new study.

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...

New research suggests that amino acids, the fundamental components of life, may have arrived on Earth carried by interstellar ...

Today, science can narrow down potential oil reserves with surprising accuracy — especially when it comes to shale oil, found ...

For decades, Europa has been the optimistic counterpoint to a lonely solar system, a small icy world that seemed to tick ...

KEY FINDINGS Europa has long stood at the center of humanity’s search for life beyond Earth, its cracked ice shell and hidden ocean making it one of the solar system’s most compelling worlds. Now, as ...

Although Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, it’s the smallest of the Galilean moons – the largest being Ganymede. With an equatorial diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, Europa is ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...