Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

Simulation results show that Mars, despite its similar size to Earth, has a considerable influence on the Milankovitch cycles ...

The first global atlas of Martian watersheds reveals 16 huge ancient river systems that once shaped Mars and may hold clues ...

On 13 November, the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamic Explorers (EscaPADE) mission launched to space on the New ...

"A three-body problem is extremely complicated. Now we're dealing with four: the sun, Earth, the moon and Mars. The heavy ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

Even worse, the orbit of Mars is elliptical (think of a slight oval rather than a perfect circle), which means that sometimes ...

Planetary scientists recently simulated an alternate version of our solar system: one with a super-Earth causing climate chaos on Earth, Mars and Venus. If our solar system had a super-Earth, it's ...

On Earth, knowing the time feels simple. Your phone pings the same second as a GPS satellite and an atomic clock in a lab.

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. Here's what we know.

When I was in middle school, my biology teacher showed our class the sci-fi movie “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.” The plot drew me in, with its depiction of the “Genesis Project” – a new ...

Scientists reveal why time moves faster on Mars than on Earth, and how this affects future space communication and navigation ...