NASA’s Perseverance rover found pale rocks containing kaolinite on Mars, a mineral that forms in warm, wet conditions.

The 3.5 billion-year-old crater discovered in Australia may be the cradle of life. Earth's oldest-known crater discovered is ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found large crystals of quartz with a high purity on Mars, which probably had to have formed in the ...

Surrounded by green hills and beige rock, Lake Salda sits in what is sometimes called the Turkish Lake District, a great ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.

Research published late last year indicated “seismic discontinuities in the Martian crust” that scientists believe could be an indicator of liquid water under the Martian surface, raising the ...

The discovery of pale, loose rocks on the Martian surface could suggest that Mars was once a much warmer world.

After a day of uncertainty following a harrowing moon landing attempt, the company Intuitive Machines sealed the fate of its ...

“We’ve also seen evidence for ferrihydrite in the lake sediments at (Mars’) Gale crater (which is being explored by the Curiosity rover). The best way to really solve this puzzle would be to ...

James Turrell discusses his ongoing land art piece, Roden Crater, created within a pit formed by an extinct volcano in the Arizona desert. ART21: Where are we, right now? TURRELL: Well, right now ...

"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life," he added. "It's thought that the earliest life on Earth began at locations like this, near the interface of air and shallow water." ...