The Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) is a simulated Martian habitat in Utah. It's owned by the Mars Society, and…
Some landslides, both here on Earth and on Mars, behave in a puzzling way: They flow a lot further than…
In recent years research into extremophiles has captured the interest of astrobiologists. The discovery of lifeforms in some of Earth's…
One of the clearest signs of global warming, unless you live next to a glacier, are rising oceans. Now a…
A surtseyan eruption is a volcanic eruption in shallow water. It's named after the island Surtsey, off the coast of…
400 photos. 11 minutes. That's what it took to create this time-lapse of the Earth and stars as the International…
The title of Earth's Earliest Life has been returned to the fossils in the Pilbara region of Australia. The Pilbara…
We're accustomed to astronauts pulling off their missions without a hitch. They head up to the International Space Station for…
About 466 million years ago, there was an asteroid collision in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The collision…
A new study has shown that the building blocks of life (amino acids) may have come together more easily than…