The study finds life’s origin faces severe mathematical challenges. Chance alone may not be enough. A new study addresses one of science’s most enduring questions: how did life first arise from ...

New details about the mysterious disappearance of Konrad 'Koni' Steffen, a pioneering climate scientist, who vanished on Greenland's melting ice sheet, raising urgent questions about climate change's ...

Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as ...

According to the DOE’s recent budget request, though, E3SM will continue to exist, but seemingly without one of its primary ...

Mars isn’t the neatly layered world we once imagined — its mantle is filled with ancient, jagged fragments left over from colossal impacts billions of years ago. Seismic data from NASA’s InSight ...

Astronomers imaged WISPIT 2b, a Jupiter-sized planet forming inside a dusty, multi-ring disk around a young star 430 light-years away.

The Sixth Forum of Ministers and Environment Authorities of Asia Pacific concluded with a united call for urgent, collective action to tackle the region’s triple planetary crisis of climate change, ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations present a fresh challenge to long-held ideas about the chemistry of planet-forming disks.

Early Earth may not have had the right ingredients for life — until a nearby Mars-size planet crashed into it, two new studies hint.

Another first for the study of exoplanets, with a Jupiter-like proto-planet forming within a spectacular multi-ringed disk.

New research challenges the traditional understanding of Mars’s interior, suggesting a chunky texture, unlike the usual smooth depictions.

In a first, astronomers imaged a baby planet within a gap in the disk of material around a star, confirming predictions about how rings form.