A new paper led by a York University professor and published today in Nature Astronomy introduces a simple theoretical ...

Espinoza is a leader in the new massive James Webb Space Telescope study of rocky worlds, specifically to find out if planets ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton ...

In karst regions, rocky desertification (RD) represents an extreme form of land degradation, posing significant threats to both the ecological environment and socioeconomic development. Extracting the ...

The team wrote in a recently published paper TOI-1846 b falls into the so-called ‘radius gap’ – not quite a rocky planet, not quite a gas giant.

Two meteorites found in the Sahara in 2023 might be from Mercury, a study suggests, but doubts remain due to how little is known about the planet closest to the sun.

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...

Two meteorites found in the Sahara could be from the solar system’s least studied rocky planet, scientists say ...

Several wise letters have appeared recently noting the looming catastrophe of climate change. Increasing wildfires, deadly floods and rising sea levels make the need for drastic action acute.