Looks like Mars might have had more water than anyone previously imagined. A sweeping orbital survey charted over 9,320 miles ...

Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...

Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

From Mexico City to the Mekong Delta, increasingly severe droughts caused by climate change are laying waste to ecosystems ...

Remains of this key transitional species date to a mysterious "black hole" in the fossil record.

NPR's science podcast Short Wave shares how taking a nap can deliver a eureka moment, a new picture of a planet right after it was born, and how wildfires can affect water quality – after the ...

From the beautiful to the bizarre, this annual photographic showcase shines a light on some of our planet’s most breathtaking ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

Ancient Greek astronomers were the first to gather knowledge about space exploration. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos could ...