The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

New research shows that meteoroid impacts on Mars generate seismic signals that travel much deeper than previously thought, ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...

A NASA mission collected the sample and brought it back in 2023, and scientists have found traces of ancient brine that contains minerals that are the raw ingredients of life.

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids.

Green Day and Billie Eilish kicked off the massive FireAid benefit concert Thursday night, a two-venue concert extravaganza ...

With a vast expanse of natural splendor, South Dakota is rich in history, outdoor experiences and unique activities. In the Mount Rushmore State, visitors will find two of the world's longest ...

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

Months later, after undergoing lab analysis that confirmed it was, in fact, a rock that had ... are coated with a black shell that forms when space rocks react with Earth’s thick atmosphere ...