Instead of a winter wonderland, the Red Planet's northern hemisphere goes through an active—even explosive—spring thaw. While ...

A new method uses stations around Greenland’s coast to measure how much meltwater weighs down the bedrock beneath the ice, ...

This latest clue about the architecture of consciousness supports a Nobel Prize winner's theory about how quantum physics ...

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Tiffany Taylor, professor of microbial ecology and evolution at the University of Bath in the U.K., recommends the books that ...

The European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission gives scientists the ability to study one of the solar system's most compelling ...

If Saturn's rings are older, they are also easier to explain. The Solar System was much more chaotic billions of years ago, ...

A study of more than 26,000 white dwarf stars has confirmed a long-predicted but elusive effect in these ultra-dense, dying stars: Hotter white dwarfs are slightly puffier than cooler ones, even when ...

A stronomers have found a new type of stellar phenomenon: stars that for a few months might suddenly get up to 20 times as ...

It's a new year on Mars, and while New Year's means winter in Earth's northern hemisphere, it's the start of spring in the ...