Recently, I came across a news article stating that scientists want to send a spaceship to explore Atlas—not the mountain range we usually talk about, but the "Atlas asteroid" located outside our ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

With new telescopes coming online and fresh discoveries arriving almost weekly, the search is only accelerating. Each new world we find is more than a point of light somewhere in the great darkness.

If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school ...

If asteroid deflection missions aren’t conducted with the utmost care and precision, they may send objects through a ...

On Sept. 21-22, a partial solar eclipse will see the moon sweep over the sun's disk, blocking its light over a swathe of the ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe.

UC Santa Cruz applied mathematicians produced the first self-consistent models of the Sun’s tachocline incorporating the ...

Antarctica, New Zealand and a sliver of Australia are in prime position as the moon slips between the sun and Earth, ...