Using ALMA’s exceptionally sharp vision, astronomers have uncovered rings, gaps, and cavities in extremely compact disks ...

Robert Zubrin thinks colonising space could save humanity. His theories rest on a controversial reading of American history ...

A team of scientists used data from the European Mars Express orbiter to get a better understanding of the Arsia Mons ...

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Land in Five YearsMy first job on Mars was to drive in a white stake. Twenty meters on each side. In five years, this land ...

A 1,200-year-old inscription in Guatemala reveals the name of a Maya mathematician whose calculations linked Venus, Mars, and ...

Researchers found the structure's remains, as well as fragments of statues, while excavating near the Kapersburg fort, an ...

In the case of Deinococcus radiodurans, this principle plays out in dramatic fashion. The bacterium shrugs off massive doses ...

There is a “face” on Mars—for those who saw it on TV or in magazines as children and never knew what happened afterward. This ...

Colin Pillinger died believing that Beagle 2 had not landed, and now his work is being celebrated around the UK.

An image of Mars taken by NASA has sparked theories that the agency captured ruins of a lost civilization on the Red Planet.

Each spring, a 1,800-kilometre cloud appears above Arsia Mons. Researchers say it forms without dust or other particles, ...