In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

What drives us to send probes throughout the Solar System and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

New research finds that global warming has significantly reduced the amount of water that’s being stored around the world in ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

Scientists know from extensive study here on Earth that life doesn't sprout from nothing—it requires a complex (and often ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo has uncovered a ...

Fram2, the third private spaceflight purchased from SpaceX, is scheduled to launch no earlier than March 31st from Kennedy ...

A group of researchers including scientists of the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo have ...

Four faculty members at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have been elected 2024 Fellows of the American Association ...