Planetary researchers analyzing images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have found evidence that liquid nitrogen may still ...

Paleontologists working in southern China have identified a new species of sauropod dinosaur that appears to belong to a ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has stumbled on the largest patch of polygon-shaped ground fractures it has ever seen on Mars, a ...

Europa’s subsurface ocean has long topped astrobiologists’ wish lists as a place to search for life beyond Earth. But new research led by a Rutgers University scientist suggests reaching that ocean — ...

Paleontologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil snake in Brazil that is reshaping ideas about how the earliest snakes lived and complicating the long-running debate over whether their ...

New 3D computer simulations from ETH Zurich show that young rift flanks on Venus stay tall and steep, while older ones flatten out over time. “Rift valleys, which indicate tectonic activity, can be ...

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of ancient gecko found in two pieces of amber from the 99-million-year-old (mid-Cretaceous) amber deposits in Kachin province, Myanmar. One of ...