In contrast, the recent Brown study utilizes “micro-analytical techniques,” focusing on individual sulfide grains, Dottin ...

Bill McKinnon shares his story of a career spent studying the geology and geophysics of icy worlds beyond our own. McKinnon, ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — If scientists can prove evidence of life on Mars — now or at any point in the past — “that ...

Mars has experienced multiple ice ages, with each one leaving less ice than the last. By studying craters that serve as “ice archives,” researchers traced how the red planet stored and lost its water ...

Lost in Space, the iconic science fiction series, is in cultural conversation again because of actress June Lockhart's sad ...

Wiemann combines tools from chemistry, biology, and geology to explore ecological and evolutionary questions about life on ...

Former NASA officials warn that the U.S. looks poised to lose its self-declared race to beat China to the moon ...

Because oxygen-bearing sulfate minerals trap and preserve signals from Earth's atmosphere, scientists closely study how they ...

October 28th has been a date of remarkable historical significance across the centuries.Arguably the most momentous event ...

Humanity's drive to explore has taken us across the solar system, with astronaut boots, various landers and rovers' wheels ...

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...