The current image of Mars as an arid and hostile desert contrasts sharply with the history revealed by its surface. Channels, ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to ...

Scientists with expertise in geophysics at Washington State University have developed an alternative pathway for the ...

Andy Weir’s bestselling story The Martian predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected return-to-Earth flight systems and collaborated with the China National ...

A new study co-led by the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the Department ...

I'm a planetary scientist who was born the year of Sputnik's launch. Over the course of my 40-year career, I've witnessed not one but at least five separate revolutions that fundamentally transformed ...

what if a planet did not need a star at all? This is the provocative question at the heart of an emerging astronomical debate, wherein the discovery of rogue planets-worlds free-floating in the galaxy ...

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. The Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS) provides ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to the ...

A rare astronomical event will display six planets in alignment, visible after sunset, giving skywatchers a spectacular ...

A planet parade is basically the nickname given when the planets in our solar system appear to line up in a roughly straight line from the Earth’s perspective. Just after sunset on 28 February, six of ...

The Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS) provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in astrobiology and planetary science with the research ...