A rare rock from Mars known as Meteorite NWA 16788 will be up for auction at Sotheby's on July 16. The meteorite may sell for ...

Southwest Research Institute has collaborated with Yale University to summarize the scientific community's notable progress in advancing the understanding of the formation and evolution of the inner ...

You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

All eyes are on Comet 3I/ATLAS as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice ball through our solar system ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

A walk in the desert and a curious discovery could have revealed that the secrets of alien life grow in the harshest ...

NASA's TESS exoplanet hunter has found the fastest-disintegrating planet ever. Losing a moons-worth of matter every million years, it is a prime target for the James Webb Space Telescope.

Terrestrial planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. These planets are relatively small in size and in mass. A terrestrial planet has a solid rocky surface, with metals deep in its interior.

BOOK REVIEW In Reed’s ‘Terrestrial History,’ homesick for an abandoned Earth Asking what humanity owes our home planet — and what we owe each other ...