UCF Professor Ramses Ramirez believes human exploration can greatly accelerate the search for life. "A human can react ...

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that hovered around 0°C. This stable, warmer temperature could have served as a ...

But people will keep studying the samples. They’re at NASA, they’re available for research. It’s like the Antarctic meteorites. People can request samples for their studies, and so the team and the ...

Katie Paterson, a Scottish artist known for deeply research-based works, continues her universal explorations with two shows ...

From a bar in the clouds to finding more water from the Moon, outer space is constantly surprising us. A vast universe Think ...

On Earth, gold is estimated to be more than four billion years old, with around 216,265 tonnes of gold mined throughout its entire history.

What if the dinosaur-ending asteroid had struck Antarctica instead of Mexico? New simulations suggest the impact site was ...

Without meteorites, you probably wouldn’t be reading this. As writer Maria Golia explains in her new book, Meteorite: Nature And Culture, meteorite bombardments during Earth’s infancy may have ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so meteorites that come from the moon and Mars. This is probably a result of ...

The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...

The meteorite he found Sunday morning, clocking in at 14.33 grams, could sell for upward of $1,500. But Albin plans to hang on to it—he said it's the "most beautiful space rock he's ever ...

Beneath the thick ice of East Antarctica lies a hidden world—untouched for over 34 million years. This frozen expanse, more than 10 million square kilometers wide, has long concealed a forgotten ...