Permafrost, or frozen soil, covers some 15 percent of land in the Northern Hemisphere, and thanks to human-driven climate ...

Chemical signatures indicate the meteorite came from an early planet that met an untimely end during the formation of our ...

For the first time ever, researchers have quantified the length and mass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks globally ...

Mechanoluminescent materials convert mechanical energy such as stress, strain and vibration directly into light, making them attractive as self-powered sensors that require no batteries or wiring.

To truly understand what an asteroid is made of, we need to send a probe to it. Remote sensing from ground-based telescopes, ...

Well-known microbes that grow on our crops, our gardens, even our skin have been found thriving at two to three times the ...

An artist's conception showing a planetary smash-up between a Moon-sized object and a Mercury-sized object. (NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

A rare meteorite recovered from the Sahara Desert has revealed compelling evidence for a long-lost world that existed during ...

An ambitious proposal, published earlier this month in Space Weather, explores the possibility of a space-based system ...

Every planet in the Solar System, including Earth, orbits a shared center of mass rather than the geometric center of the Sun ...

Mr. Musk’s rocket and satellite maker opened at $150 per share, up 11 percent from its I.P.O. price, and then shot to well over 20 percent.

Hints of high-pressure chemistry within a rare meteorite suggest this fallen space rock comes from a planet gone wrong in the ...