Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

"The fact that we captured the aurora again demonstrates that our method for predicting aurorae on Mars and capturing them ...

On the Red Planet, aurorae glow green because the charged particles collide with oxygen atoms high above Mars. They may be ...

New research from Southwest Research Institute reveals that violent late-stage planetary collisions shaped Earth’s water, ...

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

Impact history should be considered a key factor in the search for habitable Earth-like exoplanets. Southwest Research ...

The greatest challenge facing astrobiologists is that there is only one planet known to us that has life. Of all the bodies ...

Solar storms are dangerous for future Mars astronauts. Predicting aurora helps warn about incoming radiation bursts.

Despite seeming like Earth's twin, Venus is a strange and mysterious place. Scientists haven't known what made it so odd, but that might have just changed.