Mars is an inhospitable desert planet. Billions of years ago, things were different. In Jezero Crater, for example, fed by a ...

Sudden floods, rising sea levels, devastating droughts, wildfires… Climate disasters have combined on this island of five ...

Wadisuchus kassabi is both a new species and the first member of a new genus, or group of species that share physical similarities and an evolutionary line. The species was named after the valley ...

While visiting The Living Desert, local students got to feed a rhino and turn classroom lessons into hands-on conservation ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

An international team of researchers has published a report on how Mars samples should be handled from a scientific point of ...

Wadisuchus kassabi, an ancient crocodile from Egypt, shows crocodiles lived in the sea, offering insight into reptile ...

Wildflowers are blooming in the Atacama Desert, an inhospitable stretch of land west of the Andes Mountains that normally ...

Scheduled to open in 2029, the Mars-V camp in Mongolia is a space simulation center that allows participants to experience ...

But a mysterious feature made astronomers consider a parallel with the Dune planet, gullies carved in Martian sands looked dug by giant sandworms. Is Shai-Hulud behind the Martian mystery? Of course, ...

JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress ...

From the deserts of Namibia to the beaches of Hawaii, some sands have a voice — they hum, whistle, and roar like living instruments. For centuries, travelers have heard these sounds and wondered if ...