NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft specifically designed to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth, is on track for a 2027 ...

For over a decade, a star system on the verge of unleashing a deadly gamma ray burst appeared to have its guns trained on ...

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday called a national election for May 3, launching a five-week campaign ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

Asgard archaea may have led to the evolution of eukaryotic life ETH Zurich researchers identify actin and microtubule ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Swiss scientists say the biggest glacier in the Alps could yet be partially saved if global warming is capped below two ...

in May. “That really just helps give us a better ... to operate on the moon’s surface for one lunar day, about 14 Earth days, before they run down in the extreme cold of the lunar night.

Plus: Observe two stunning spirals, see Venus reappear as a morning star, and enjoy the Last Quarter Moon in the sky this ...

A University of Vienna study suggests that the solar system's movement through the galaxy affected Earth's climate millions ...