Earth has a new moon, but don’t get too attached. Earth has a new moon, but don’t get too attached. Our planet’s gravity ...

A salt-loving Earth microbe showed growth after 160 days in warm brine under low pressure and an oxygen-free, carbon ...

Cracks along a giant Martian volcano, possibly above a magma chamber, might be spewing magmatic gases into the atmosphere, ...

Earth has gained a second tiny moon after a small space rock was captured by our planet's gravity. The object, known as 2026 ...

University of Cambridge astronomers have ruled out a longstanding theory.

Earth may have produced much of its water during the planet's formation, as rocky pebbles reacted with the hydrogen-rich ...

The tiny space rock, estimated to be just 3 to 6 feet across, has been temporarily captured by Earth’s gravity and is ...

It’s called the Great Unconformity, and it’s a gap in the geologic record,” says Nicolas Flament, a geoscientist at the ...

A new genetic study traces the complex history of land plants’ closest algal relatives, revealing repeated shifts from single ...

Learn about a faraway cosmic feature that looks like a cat's tail made of "fluffy" dust grains that may have scattered after ...

Don’t blink, or you might just miss Earth’s newest natural satellite. Astronomers have officially confirmed that a tiny, near ...

(Kevin Gill/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) Mars has undergone some monumental PR shifts over the past few centuries. Once thought to be ...