No tricks, but skywatchers may be in for an October treat when a newly discovered comet passes through our skies. Comet ...
The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can ...
Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary. Credit: Space.com | footage: Krisztián Sárneczky / or ...
The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...
How did this life survive? New research out of the University of Texas in Austin is revealing how an atmosphere may have ...
Fast-forward to today: we’ve gone from one lonely planet to a catalog of thousands. The pace is accelerating. In 2015, NASA’s Kepler telescope had confirmed its 1,000th exoplanet. By 2022, the tally ...
Lauren Edgar was in second grade the first time she realized her future might lie outside the earth’s atmosphere. While ...
Scientists are astonished at what’s forming below the sea’s surface, but they now have the opportunity to study how the ...
A 95-million-year-old crocodyliform fossil, affectionately nicknamed Elton, was discovered in Montana by student Harrison ...
Hot, small and old—exoplanet TOI-561 b is just about the worst place to look for alien air. Scientists using JWST found it ...
Scientists discovered a new deep-sea coral named Iridogorgia chewbacca, its shaggy branches resembling the iconic Wookiee ...
Scientists have finally solved a decades-long mystery about a strange crater deep under the North Sea. The Silverpit Crater, first discovered in 2002, has now been confirmed as the result of a massive ...