No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the red planet never ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

The study notes that the two hypotheses of how the rock eroded are not mutually exclusive—it is possible that both tectonics and glaciation contributed to global Earth system disruption during ...

The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic ... quartz-rich rocks, was unable to descend along with the rest of the Indian plate. It was at about this time that the anchor chain must ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the lunar-inspired moniker may have been more accurate than we realized.

Trump. But the officials said they had figured out how to potentially launch the mission and bring those red planet rocks back to Earth sooner by reducing the size and weight of the mission ...