NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012, and has travelled more than 34 kilometres on the Martian surface. The discovery of carbonate suggests that the atmosphere contained enough carbon ...

It is our mission to advance our understanding and prediction capability of processes that govern the evolution of System Earth. This system is Earth’s structure, together with the internal workings ...

However, collecting large samples takes time and resources. Fast science is also associated with gaming the system. As a hypothetical example, an educational scientist might collect data to find ...

However, some of Earth’s oldest fish called coelacanths make it out unscathed. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 There was likely not a single definitive cause of this period of mass ...

Perhaps the falling of water, the most crucial element that sustains us, also played a greater role in the origin of life on Earth than we previously recognized.” Mindy Weisberger is a science ...

"We should expect the same kind of damage report and also loss of life from this earthquake because it's a shallow earthquake that's in a heavily populated area of Burma," Park told Live Science.

In 2021, the journal Nature declared arXiv one of the “10 computer codes that transformed science,” praising ... called Forth—and a new operating system called Collapse OS—may be our ...

The telescope’s destination is the first Lagrange point, or L1, one of five known places in the solar system where the balanced gravitational forces of the sun and Earth tend to hold objects in ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

Credit: Starmus/The Kennedy Center The "Earth to Space" sessions then get underway Tuesday (April 1) with a two-day special version of Starmus, the global celebration that unites science ...

Skyler Ware is a freelance science journalist covering chemistry, biology, paleontology and Earth science. She was a 2023 AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellow at Science News.