journey highlighted by the rendezvous with the carbon-rich Bennu, a unique pogo stick-style touchdown and sample grab, a jammed lid that sent some of the stash spilling into space, and now the return ...

Around 250 million years ago, a mass extinction event wiped out more than 90% of life – and it all began in the water. You’re ...

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million ...

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are "Snowball Earth" events that happened hundreds of ...

Did Earth once look a lot more like Saturn? Scientists believe the answer is yes! In a groundbreaking study, researchers in ...

The prevailing theory has been that volcanic activity in the Siberian Traps released massive amounts of carbon dioxide.

A NASA-developed material made of carbon nanotubes will enable our search for exoplanets—some of which might be capable of ...

Earth may briefly have had a ring system similar to Saturn ’s over 450 million years ago during a period of unusually intense ...

The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

Scientists have long been searching for the origins of life on Earth, and new theories continue to emerge. In a recent study, ...

A new study from Monash University scientists suggests that Earth may have had a ring system that formed around 466 million ...

Here at UT, we've had several stories that describe the concept of a space elevator. They are designed to make it easier to ...