Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

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After losing his Pacific Palisades neighborhood in the fires that swept through Los Angeles in January, Kent Tobiska, the CEO ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually ...

Helium can help scientists detect the speed and direction at which we’re moving through space. Deuterium, which is left over ...

The Valentine's Day northern lights will largely be visible in Canada and Alaska, but a few northern-most states may see the ...