Scientists have estimated the size of an extinct flying reptile called a pterosaur, based on fragments of a fossil finger bone discovered in southern England in June 2022. These results reveal it to be the largest...
When a volcano is about to erupt, the surrounding land puffs up like a squeezed balloon. The technical term is "transient deformation," and Virginia Tech researchers have detected and tracked this short-lived movement for the first...
Mars polar ice caps were one of the first Earth-like characteristics identified on Mars. Since the development of film in the 19th Century, researchers...
People might assume the search for life on Mars ended when NASA's first rovers sent back images of the planet's barren, inhospitable surface. However,...
A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA's Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars,...
Scientists from the Universities of Sydney and Sorbonne University have used the geological record of the deep sea to discover a connection between the...
Humans have been digging underground for millennia—on the Earth. It's where we extract some of our most valuable resources that have moved society forward....
An international team of radiation specialists, biologists and infectious disease experts has found four types of bacteria that are capable of surviving exposure to...
