“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Learn about the life and scientific contributions of Johannes Kepler, the 17th-century astronomer known for his laws of ...

USC scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of the Earth’s enigmatic inner core, revealing for the ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured breathtaking images of iridescent clouds drifting across the Martian sky, revealing a ...

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact." ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has triggered imaginations yet again with a futuristic AI generated video of life on Mars. The video ...

In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we speak with two people – a planetary scientist who studies the geology of the Moon, and a space lawyer who studies space policy and geopolitics – about ...

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...

Two gargantuan canyons on the moon were carved by a hailstorm of rocks — and that’s good news for future lunar astronauts.

The far side of the Moon has its own versions of the Grand Canyon—two of them, in fact! A new study explains how these deep ...