NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, dropping off its sample of dust and pebbles gathered from...
When you hear the word comet, you might imagine a bright streak moving across the sky. You may have a...
NASA is set to reveal on Wednesday the first images of the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, something...
ESA’s Gaia provides many new and improved insights into our galaxy and beyond with the release of five new data...
Climate change that has occurred over the past 260 million years and brought about mass extinctions of life during these...
Some asteroids have measured densities higher than those of any elements known to exist on Earth. This suggests that they...
Solving the mystery of how planets like Earth were formed is an important question for understanding the origin of life....
Scientists using the H.E.S.S. observatory in Namibia have detected the highest energy gamma rays ever from a dead star called...
A pair of theoretical physicists are reporting that the same observations inspiring the hunt for a ninth planet might instead...
A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Planetary Scientist and Associate Vice President Dr. Alan Stern posits that...
Southwest Research Institute scientists are using telescopes to observe the asteroid Psyche in the infrared, providing context for NASA’s upcoming...
Venus may be a (slightly) gentler place than some scientists give it credit for. In new research, space physicists at...
