Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better ...

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' ...

The science isn’t all that new, but it’s raised concerns and praise on three fronts: the environment, land rights and what ...

It was around 1870 when the British physicist John William Strutt, better known as Lord Rayleigh, first found an explanation ...

The Chelyabinsk meteor struck Russia in 2013, resulting in almost 1,500 injuries and 7,300 buildings damaged. 9-1-1: Lone ...

An international team of researchers clocked WASP-127b's speedy winds using the VLT's CRIRES+ instrument. Short for "Cryogenic high-resolution InfraRed Echelle Spectrograph," CRIRES+ allows ...

An incredible video captured from the International Space Station shows an aurora from above, rippling with the unusual green ...

These mysterious whitish-gray glows in the northern lights might be cousins of the mauve light streak known as STEVE.

One of my gripes with "The Martian" movie was the depiction of the winds on Mars. The lower air density means that the sort ...

The freeze last week has a weather term for it that was coined by a Texas A&M scientist back in 1976. It's called the ...

Most of us first spot them as children—the white lines in the blue sky that are the telltale sign of a flight overhead. Contrails are an instant visual reminder of air travel, and a source of much ...

Materials such as concrete containing carbonate-based aggregates, bio-based plastics and biochar could sequester more than 16 ...