NASA hit a bullseye in late September with DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, which flew a spacecraft straight at...
Southwest Research Institute scientists have compiled 41 solar occultation observations of Saturn’s rings from the Cassini mission. The compilation, published...
Mission engineers will track NASA’s Lucy spacecraft nonstop as it prepares to swoop near Earth on Oct. 16 to use...
Astronomers around the world are captivated by an unusually bright and long-lasting pulse of high-energy radiation that swept over Earth...
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered the heaviest element ever found in an...
NASA on Tuesday said it had succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity’s ability to stop...
In the search for life beyond Earth, subsurface bodies of water in our outer solar system are some of the...
Broccoli, along with other plants and microorganisms, emit gases to help them expel toxins. Scientists believe these gases could provide...
The cocktail of chemicals that make up the frozen surfaces on two of Jupiter’s largest moons are revealed in the...
Looking up at the moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from...
Are we alone in the universe? An answer to that age-old question has seemed tantalizingly within reach since the discovery...
When the Chelyabinsk fireball exploded across Russian skies in 2013, it littered Earth with a relatively uncommon type of meteorite....
