Lunar minerals generate the rust mineral hematite when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, experiments show.

The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can ...

New JWST observations of Saturn reveal bizarre bead-like auroras and a lopsided star-shaped pattern in the atmosphere.

Scientists have discovered that the Moon is rusting due to oxygen particles originating from Earth. These particles travel ...

A strange cosmic object nicknamed “The Accident” has given scientists their first glimpse of a rare silicon-based molecule ...

Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have ...

Clues to our planet’s dramatic past are in the layers of rocks we might overlook. A great guide shows why they deserve our ...

Science advances through data that don't fit our current understanding. At least that was Thomas Kuhn's theory in his famous ...

Webb telescope found new clues about planet TRAPPIST-1 e, ruling out thick air and keeping the hope for liquid water - and ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope observed dark beads and lopsided star patterns drifting over Saturn’s ...

A new report sounds the alarm on ocean acidification as Earth breaches the seventh of nine "planetary boundaries." ...

The beads appear above a swirling hexagonal jet stream at the gas giant's north pole, and could emerge from interactions ...