Mars, a planet once capable of sustaining liquid water and harboring flowing rivers, today stands as a frozen desert. For ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

As the sun grew hotter, so did Mars, prompting much of its atmospheric carbon dioxide to rain out and ultimately get locked ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

Rare earth elements might sound like something out of science fiction, but they’re real—and essential to the modern world.

They're in the headlines every week—critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and the rare earth elements ...

Wave-like landforms on Mars provide clues about the planet’s icy history, its potential to support life, and the behavior of ...

Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real ...