Terraforming Mars has been the long-term dream of colonization enthusiasts for decades. But when you start to grapple with ...

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s ...

Science is advancing and with it, fascinating and unique things are being discovered, as has happened in the Pacific Ocean. A group of researchers from ETH Zurich and the Californi ...

NASA's vast archive of science data, over 100 petabytes and counting, is proving to be a timeless treasure trove for new ...

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? An international team of researchers, led by ETH ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

Friederike Otto, 42, is a climate scientist at Imperial College London, where she is best known for pioneering the new field of attribution science, in which researchers calculate in real time how ...

If the Moon were to suddenly vanish from the solar system, our home planet would suffer devastating consequences ...

Scientists have made a leap in genetic engineering by pushing elephant cells into an embryonic-like state. This marks a major ...

Every now and then, space surprises us– and this time, the buzz is all about four small rocky planets found around one of our ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...