Look up to the night sky Friday night for November’s full moon, 2024’s last supermoon, followed by the Leonid meteor shower ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of ...

In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spots a scattering of bizarre bright white pebbles of a mysterious composition and origin.

Since the formation of Earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago, the convection and release of hot magma in its mantle layer ...

Basalt, a gray-black volcanic rock found throughout the solar system, are key recorders of geologic history, he said. "When the Martian mantle melted, it also produced basalts. The moon is mostly ...

"The Grand Canyon is an epic Rosetta Stone for geology," Denver Museum of Nature and Science geologist James Hagadorn said.

It’s my little slice of heaven,” says Chuck. A slice that is now uninhabitable until county inspectors give him the all-clear ...

Artemis 2 was initially slotted for a December 2024 liftoff, but that schedule was delayed in January 2024. NASA said several ...

Using Einstein’s theory of general relativity, physicists found that clocks on the Moon would run 56 microseconds faster than ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on ...

Data from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was used to create a water distribution map of the ...