There was water on Mars as early as 4.45 billion years ago, just a short time after the planet formed from the leftover dust of the growing Sun. The evidence? A tiny grain of zircon, smaller than the ...

A team of researchers has produced the strongest experimental evidence yet that Earth’s iron core holds enormous quantities ...

The water distribution inside the Moon appears to be somewhat lopsided. According to an analysis of lunar materials collected from the far side of the Moon and delivered into the waiting hands of ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of water on ancient Mars with "rippled textures" and "landslide debris" in the ...

Where there’s water, there’s life—and vice versa. Aside from being a fundamental truth of science, this fact accounts for a huge amount of the studies we undertake during space exploration. Finding ...

(CNN) — Mars may have once hosted an ocean with waves that lapped against sandy beaches 3.6 billion years ago, according to new research. China’s Zhurong rover and its ground-penetrating radar ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of the few meteorites ...

A team of researchers at the University of Oxford have uncovered crucial evidence for the origin of water on Earth. Using a rare type of meteorite, known as an enstatite chondrite, which has a ...

(CNN) — Researchers say they have uncovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into question widely held beliefs about the origins of water and the ...

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