As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

This week, follow the journeys of two lunar landers, meet “woolly mice,” see the oldest known bone tools, and more.

A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth's celestial ...

Beneath the Indian Ocean lies a 106-meter gravity hole, caused by ancient mantle plumes and vanished oceans. Scientists trace ...

With its vivid turquoise, green and blue waters, it’s no surprise Lake Salda is often promoted as the “Maldives of Turkey.” ...

In that tiny amount of exploration, we've found things that defy logic and challenge history — sunken cities, ancient ... on the moon than have visited the deepest parts of the ocean.

The contents of three large metal cases have changed our understanding of life under the ocean. Inside were vials ... which fewer people have visited than the moon. They focused their attention ...

“And in many ways, it actually felt like standing on the shores of ancient Lake Jezero on Mars ... the conditions found on another planet or moon. Horgan says finding a Mars analog here ...

In orbit around the white planet is a single cratered moon. You are gazing on Earth in the Cryogenian ... When the ice eventually thawed, the ground-up minerals washed into the oceans where they may ...

This structure likely formed as an ancient ocean slowly froze from top to bottom ... for the ocean-hosting icy moons of the outer solar system, like Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus.” ...