English archaeologist Jessica Rawson's book Life and Afterlife in Ancient China Photo: Courtesy of CITIC Press Group. In the ...

In 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 and Viking 2 landers, the first U.S. spacecraft to land on Mars, conducted three experiments with ...

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

An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research ...

Pollen found beneath a treeless island shows it once supported a cool-temperate forest - wet, shaded, and biologically rich.

A cadre of iron-rich extraterrestrial particles picked up faint whiffs of our planet's atmosphere when they fell to Earth ...

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

An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land in northern Sweden and altering ...

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

The hit History Channel series explores the theory that extraterrestrials have visited Earth for thousands of years.

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

Minerals in the rock might have been produced by microbes in chemical reactions, but researchers say they’ll need to examine the sample more closely to know for sure ...