Water may have flowed on the asteroid that birthed the space rock Ryugu a billion years after it formed, much later than ...

Hidden for 95 million years beneath layers of sediment, the remarkablywell-preserved skull of an ancient legged snake species ...

For decades, scientists have scoured Mars for even the faintest trace of life—and now, an intriguing, speckled rock may have ...

Recent discoveries have sparked a wave of excitement and intrigue among scientists and the public alike, as evidence suggests ...

Ancient crystals reveal that Earth began recycling its crust and forming continents billions of years earlier than scientists ...

The discovery by the six-wheeled rover in Jezero Crater represents one of the best pieces of evidence to date about the ...

Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock sample collected by the rover in 2024 from an ancient dry riverbed on ...

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient ...

A new study suggests a habitable past and signs of ancient microbial processes on Mars. Led by NASA and featuring key ...

Moving ice on early Earth exposed deep rocks, freed key elements, and nudged our planet toward conditions where complex life ...

Asteroids crashing into the Earth could have delivered the building blocks of life to the planet, new research suggests. Scientists have previously discovered in meteorites three of the five ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found possible signs of ancient life in rocks on Mars, keeping scientists up at night.