AAAS recognized Mitchell for “distinguished contributions to the field of transdisciplinary community-engaged scholarship as ...

Scientists say they have uncovered new clues in Australia about when plate tectonics began on Earth, the only known planet to ...

Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil ...

New measurements from the Blue Ghost lander suggest that thin crust, not just radioactive heating, shaped the moon’s dark ...

A crater as wide as two American football fields formed in spring 2024, a size expected roughly once a century. A NASA ...

The rocks didn’t look like much from the outside. Scattered across a remote stretch of western Australia called North Pole ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago.

The Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032 will assess key scientific questions in planetary science and astrobiology, identify priority medium- and large-class missions and other ...

A small mare ridge in Northeast Mare Imbrium taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Scientists have produced the first global map and ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover a planetary system that turns our understanding of planet formation upside ...

Pluto was once dismissed as a frozen, lifeless rock—but that idea didn’t survive first contact. When New Horizons flew past, it revealed towering ice mountains, flowing glaciers, strange atmospheric ...

In a new study, planetary scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have begun to unravel the factors that kick off major dust storms on Mars—weather events that sometimes engulf the entire ...