Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will line up in the sky this week and could stay visible to the naked eye for a number of weeks. Skygazers will be treated to the sight from Wednesday all the way thr… [+2300 chars]
A unique rock formation in China holds clues that tectonic plates subducted, or went underneath other plates, during the Archean eon (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago), just as they do nowadays, a … [+6111 chars]
The Milky Way and Lyrid meteors falling through the sky at the Bathing House in Northumberland (Getty) Make sure to watch the skies this week as the annual Lyrid meteor shower lights up the skies ab… [+2343 chars]
After collecting eight rock-core samples from its first science campaign and completing a record-breaking, 31-Martian-day (or sol) dash across about 3 miles (5 kilometers) of Mars, NASA's Perseveranc… [+3307 chars]