Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...

The Northern Lights could be visible as far south as New York and Idaho tonight due to a "coronal hole" sending streams of ...

The site was chosen for its altitude, placing the telescope above as much atmospheric disturbance as possible. The air has a ...

A report from the World Meteorological Organization confirms that 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first year to ...

The conical capsule landed with the assistance of a parachute and was quickly recovered. The spacecraft carried a ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from ...

The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...