Giant glaciers pulverized Earth's ancient rocks, setting the stage for complex life
Imagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb. The ball hangs in the void, lonely and gleaming in the light from ...
Adsorptive regolith on Mars soaks up water, updated model shows
Mars, the next frontier in space exploration, still poses many questions for scientists. The planet was once more hospitable, ...
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Why is Mars red? Scientists may finally have the answer
A new study led by Brown University researchers shows a water-rich mineral could explain the planet’s color — and hint at its wetter, more habitable past.
NASA Gives ‘All Clear’ for Asteroid That Seemed to Threaten Earth
The odds that the space rock, 2024 YR4, will smash into our planet in 2032 have dropped to nearly zero, leading astronomers to conclude that we are no longer in danger.
Mars may have had an ocean billions of years ago, Chinese Zhurong rover data suggests
Strange, tilted geological formations spotted on Mars may be ancient beaches on the shore of a huge ocean, data from China's ...
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Dwarf planet Ceres holds evidence of life’s cosmic origins
Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, may hold answers to fundamental questions about the Solar System. This dwarf ...
This asteroid might not hit Earth in 2032 after all—here’s how we know
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...
Revealed: What life on Earth would look like if Yellowstone's supervolcano erupted
From the cities instantly incinerated to the global volcanic winter, AI reveals what life would look like if the Yellowstone ...
Expert shares key facts about asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032
The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 7 years. Here’s what could happen — and what’s being done about it
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first discovered 2024 YR4 on ...
Could an asteroid really hit Earth? Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 reach highest levels ever
The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...