Observations from global observatories, including the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), ...

Hail damage has become a real headache for project developers in the United States, where growing deployment has increased exposure to weather-related risk. As project owners seek to limit the impact ...

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.

A visitor from beyond the stars has caught NASA’s eye. The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, observed between 7 and 15 August, is offering astronomers a rare chance to study material from outside our solar ...

A new book imagines what the world would be like if Earth spun faster and faster until days just last two hours.

It’s all about the encounter physics.” With those words, MIT Professor of Planetary Sciences Richard Binzel emphasized the ...

A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) research team successfully conducted the first reinforcement learning (RL) control of ...

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

D, high-resolution, real-topography models that could provide a more precise path of totality for the next total solar eclipse.

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 ...