None of us would be around if organisms hadn’t been sparked into life billions of years ago. The question of...
On Aug. 14, 2021, a small near-Earth asteroid (NEA) designated 2021 PJ1 passed our planet at a distance of over...
There are eight known planets in the Solar System (ever since Pluto was booted from the club), but for a...
There are many kinds of stars out there in the big, wide Universe. We have a whole system for categorizing...
The asteroid Vesta is the second largest asteroid in our Solar System. With a diameter of about 330 miles, it...
Saturn – or Kronos – may be the one with a horrifying reputation for filial cannibalism in mythology, but when it...
When we search for life out there in the galaxy, we base our efforts on what we know. So far,...
A new class of exoplanet very different to our own, but which could support life, has been identified by astronomers,...
A newly discovered asteroid has the second-shortest orbit that we know in the entire Solar System, pipped only by Mercury....
In 2019, astronomers spotted something incredible in our backyard: a rogue comet from another star system. Named Borisov, the icy...
A roiling cloud complex, thick with the turbulence of star formation, is yielding up new clues as to the formation...
Venus may be a poisonous nightmare planet where habitability is concerned, but is there any other planet in the Solar...
