When NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater in 2021, its primary mission was to scour the remnants of a dried-up Martian lakebed for signs of ancient life. Scientists have been focused on ...

Water is considered the basic building block for life as we know it. An extended water history on Mars widens the window of opportunity for life to have once emerged there.

Astronomers discover PicII‑503, a 14-billion-year-old star carrying primordial elements, challenging theories of early star ...

Using its ground-penetrating radar instrument known as RIMFAX, Perseverance peered deeper beneath the Martian surface than ever before, revealing geological structures buried as far as 115 feet below ...

Scientists have discovered “alien-like” water inside a 400-million-year-old plant, revealing unusual chemistry that could ...

NASA's Perseverance has been exploring Jezero Crater for five years, traveling across the Western Delta, a river structure ...

Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun. This signature makes it the clearest example of a star within a primordial ...

The discovery of a new tektite-strewn field in northeastern Brazil points to a large meteorite impact—but geologists have yet to find the crater.

As such, the palimpsest hosts a number of 10th century treatises by the Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes of Syracuse (though the original texts would have been centuries older). Notably, ...

Explore the incredible evidence of advanced ancient technology at Hattusa in Turkey, the capital of the Hittite Empire. In this video, we examine megalithic walls, precise stone fitting, core drill ...

New findings suggest humans mastered fire far earlier than believed, transforming diets, social life, and survival in ancient ...

New research reveals how the invention of a crucial Ice Age technology helped humans defend against extreme cold during ancient global migrations.