In Dunhuang, this practice has played a vital role in preserving the past. The top layers of murals, added by later generations, help protect the underlying artwork, slowing oxidation and ...

Despite its dry, dusty surface and thinner atmosphere, Mars may have more in common with Earth than scientists previously thought. In a new study, researchers at the University of Rochester ...

segment of the spacecraft that was supposed to land on Venus remained in orbit around the Earth, its trajectory influenced only by the tenuous uppermost layers of the atmosphere. The mission was ...

It isn’t easy to figure out how the Earth was built, because it happened 4½ billion years ago, and no one was there to watch. So scientists have had to look at what the Earth looks like now and ...

To be fair, the crew reached one of the highest layers of Earth's atmosphere, one which only a very small percentage of humans can say they've been to. However, the edge of space and the end of ...

Getty The Earth may eventually have a new ocean. Tectonic plate movement under a section of Northern Africa could pull the area that is currently Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea away from the rest ...

If there's two, we're pretty confident that's a population." Earth's minimoon may be a chip off the old block: New research suggests that 2024 PT5 — a small, rocky body dubbed a "minimoon ...

Our solar system and our Earth are embedded in one arm of the Milky Way, about halfway between its center and its outer edge. Nearly everything we see overhead at night is part of the Milky Way.

Payload leftovers were marooned in Earth orbit, specifically the spacecraft's lander module/capsule intended to parachute onto the hellish landscape of Venus. "As this is a lander that was ...

An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in a matter of hours. Talk of asteroids coming too close for comfort to Earth may remind ...