A new study finds that our star system is moving more than three times faster than previous models predicted.

A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our planet safe.

A number of images of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS were taken on November 22–24, 2205 by amateur astronomers and astrophotographers…

One fateful day about 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized body called Theia collided with proto-Earth, turning both into a molten mess of rock and metal.

Understanding what happens to Antarctica’s ice matters, because as it melts, sea levels rise, affecting lives and economies around the world.

A prehistoric discovery in Morocco is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about Earth’s most iconic sea creature. Hidden beneath volcanic ash for over 500 million years, these fossils reveal something no one expected.

A rigid ice shell over a shrinking interior makes for pressures low enough to boil.

Buried beneath Alaska's frozen soil for 40,000 years, something ancient has come back to life—quietly at first, then all at once. What scientists discovered deep in the permafrost is now raising urgent alarms about the future of Earth's climate.

A family unknowingly shared their home with thousands of one of America's most feared spiders. What scientists found inside—and what didn’t happen—defies decades of medical warnings and popular belief.

It's not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses for years.

On Nov 12, the Sun’s X5.1 flare from sunspot AR4274 hit Earth’s magnetosphere, disrupting GPS and causing auroras as far south as Florida, according to NASA and Mario Nawfal.

The British physicist also praised a truly inspired footnote in this preprint paper!

It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.

Scientists report that the Antarctic ozone hole in 2025 is the fifth-smallest since 1992, thanks largely to decades of global restrictions on ozone-depleting chemicals under the Montreal Protocol. ABC News reports: The ozone hole reached its greatest one-day…

We were as excited as anyone when MARSIS (the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) experiment announced there was possibly liquid water under the southern polar ice cap. If t…

The Australian-led team have mapped the likely outcome over the next 75 years. Find out more.

If you've ever wondered what would actually happen if a microscopic black hole tunneled straight through your body, answers have finally arrived.

Human, dog, bird—regardless of the species, we are all just trying our best not to act weird.

Whether the Universe will 'end' at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's cosmic home for a very, very long time.

A newly discovered monumental basin in Gabii hints at how early Romans experimented with city planning long before Rome’s own layers were buried. In the center of the ancient city of Gabii, just 11 miles east of Rome, archaeologists led by University of Misso…

"Asteroseismology with Roman is possible because we don't need to ask the telescope to do anything it wasn't already planning to do."

“We’re going to continue to treat any LOX-methane vehicle with 100 percent TNT blast equivalency.”…

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A NASA official says a Sunday morning meteor show was likely caused by ‘a small comet fragment’ that streaked across the skies of northern Michigan. Skywatchers called it a meteorite.

SpaceX is aiming to launch the Transporter-15 mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket this Wednesday, Nov. 26, at Vandenberg Space Force Base.