Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

NASA’s Mars rover has made a discovery ‘unlike anything we’ve ever seen’, and it could help scientists have a better ...

The ranges and valleys of the Swiss Alps stand out in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission in December 2024.

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

An asteroid spotted in late December 2024 caught astronomers’ eyes and simulations to determine possible orbits indicate the object could strike Earth in 2032, but West Virginia University researchers ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

A new study discovers ancient subterranean islands several meters taller than Mount Everest that are hotter than their ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a sample from Mars that has textures “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” Known ...

NASA's remarkable new sample from Mars will help scientists get a better understanding of the planet's history and whether it ...

Mars represents one of the most promising locations in our solar system to search for signs of past or present life ...

The Martian dichotomy came to light in the 1970s following the Viking Probe's transmission of remarkably detailed Martian ...