In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" ...

New research on meteorites may finally hold the answers to why Earth and Mars suffer from a mysterious absence of specific ...

Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. Carbon dioxide (CO₂) has been predominantly portrayed as the chief culprit driving global warming. For decades, […] ...

Scientists say they expect the asteroid's future trajectory and impact probability to change as astronomers collect and ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Space agencies and billionaires are still mostly focused on Mars. However, if life exists beyond the Earth but within the ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

"We're at solar maximum; to find time to make some of these big changes is going to require time and more resources, so we ...

A dramatic reduction in sulfur pollution from shipping has unintentionally contributed to recent global warming, offering a ...

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...