It is still not clear what exactly fell onto a Kenyan village last month, but such events are likely to...
The early Earth was an extreme place. Asteroids pommeled the surface. Volcanoes spewed lava and carbon dioxide. The thick, toxic...
US company Firefly Aerospace said Tuesday it is aiming to launch a lander to the moon next week under an...
NASA announced Tuesday it may turn to Elon Musk’s SpaceX or Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin to help reduce the soaring...
The size and spin of black holes can reveal important information about how and where they formed, according to new...
NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original...
Physicists have proposed a solution to a long-standing puzzle surrounding the GD-1 stellar stream, one of the most well-studied streams...
Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy, a bit...
Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That’s the goal driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, a new assistant professor at...
Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying...
Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter’s clouds....
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin is poised to launch its first orbital rocket next week, marking a pivotal...
