A new study rules out the existence of global oceans of water on Neptune-like planets such as K2-18b, finding their water ...

Like pipes, statues and nails, the moon can rust. Such rusting has occurred despite a seeming lack of necessary components — ...

After the Big Bang, dark matter clumped together, traces of which are said to exist. Because they cannot be detected from ...

More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to ...

A major climate change report has laid out a dire future. Meanwhile Minister Murray Watt has handed another win to Woodside.

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...

In western Siberia, a rare kind of gas explosion is carving deep, near vertical craters in the tundra. Some of these massive ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

A new take on the origins of Earth’s water claims to reveal the composition of the Earth in the first few million years after ...

Slices from the edge of Mars reveal a layered atmosphere of delicate complexity. A European spacecraft has captured a ...