Robin George Andrews specializes in covering Earth, space and planetary sciences. He has a Ph.D. in volcanology and is the author of two nonfiction books, Super Volcanoes and How to Kill an Asteroid.

Just a few smashups in the asteroid belt may account for 70 percent of Earth’s meteorites, limiting what’s known about our solar system’s history.

Insects stuck in sundew plants’ sticky secretions suffocate and die before being subjected to a medley of digestive enzymes.

Over her long career, Bonnie Buratti has seen the search for life in the solar system go from a joke to a flagship mission.

Cats can flow like liquids through tall crevices, but they solidify a bit as they approach short crannies, new research shows.

Human sniffs last between one and three seconds. During that time, chemicals enter the nose and allow us to perceive the smells around us. But whether humans can perceive odor changes shorter than the ...

Participants “navigating” on a lab computer have shaped navigation knowledge. Studies that add in the environment challenge those findings.

Saturn is known for its stunning rings and its many moons (four seen here), but they aren’t the planet’s only companions. Its first known Trojan — an asteroid that shares the planet’s orbit around the ...

Genetic analysis of cavity crud from two famed man-eating lions suggests the method could re-create diets of predators that lived thousands of years ago.

This first successful treatment of tumors with radioactive ion beams could one day lead to treating human patients’ tumors with millimeter precision.

The ouch of hair pulling is transmitted with the help of a protein used to sense light touches. These details could lead to new treatments.

A new gene drive can copy and paste itself into the genomes of herpes simplex viruses in mice. The end goal is a version that disables the virus in humans.