Asteroids are chunks of rock left over from the formation of our solar system. Approximately half a billion asteroids with...
On Aug. 5, NASA’s Curiosity rover will notch its 11th year on Mars by doing what it does best: studying...
An international team of scientists has discovered an unusual Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a low-mass star called TOI-4860, located in the...
Sometimes, the best place to hide a secret is in broad daylight. Just ask the sun. “The sun is more...
Understanding the ionosphere high in the Earth’s atmosphere is important due to its effects on communications systems, satellites and crucial...
A new image of the galaxy cluster known as “El Gordo” is revealing distant and dusty objects never seen before,...
Even though x is one of the least-used letters in the English alphabet, it appears throughout American culture – from...
This year the Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak on the night of 12–13 August, giving skywatchers a potentially impressive...
They are mysterious, exciting and inescapable—black holes are some of the most exotic objects in the universe. With gravitational-wave detectors,...
Yale researchers may have solved a longstanding puzzle as to why certain metallic meteorites show traces of a magnetic field—a...
After days of silence, NASA has heard from Voyager 2 in interstellar space billions of miles away. Flight controllers accidentally...
An asteroid discovery algorithm—designed to uncover near-Earth asteroids for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s upcoming 10-year survey of the night...
