From orbit high above Mars, a familiar shape has appeared in an utterly alien landscape: a vast feature that looks uncannily ...

Scientists have created the most detailed map of Mars’ ancient river systems, pinpointing 16 major basins that may have once ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb claims the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is not just a comet, but a technological artefact ...

Exactly 10 years since he blasted into space, Tim Peake reveals the lessons he learned in orbit - and what the future holds ...

Asteroid Bennu, a dark rubble pile that crosses Earth’s orbit every few years, is turning out to be a kind of cosmic pantry stocked with the raw materials for biology. Early results from the samples ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

It was thought that complex cells couldn’t survive above a certain temperature, but a tiny amoeba has proven that assumption ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

By trapping huge amounts of water on land, big dams built by humans have slightly changed how Earth spins and where its poles ...

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...

Abiotic chemistry in Earth’s atmosphere could have generated biologically important organosulfur molecules as life was ...