Mars rover team members have begun informally naming features around the rim of Endeavour Crater, as they develop plans to investigate that destination when NASA's Opportunity rover arrives there after many more months of driving.

In a new analysis of a lunar sample collected by Apollo 17, researchers have detected and dated carbon on the moon in the form of graphite -- the sooty stuff of pencil lead -- which survived from around 3,8 billion years ago, when the moon was heavily bombarded by meteorites.

The Sun's influence on the climate has often been debated. But a new study from NASA shows that Solar activity can not account for the observed changes

Scientists at the University of Leeds are predicting that within 10 million years Africa’s Horn will fall away and a new ocean will form.