NASA has a planetary defense project that identified possible threats in near our solar system that could cause another mass ...

The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...

If dark matter is less abundant but also larger, it could require a much more massive detector, such as a planet or a moon. In the new paper, William DeRocco, a Post-Doctoral Associate at the ...

UW’s Institute for Data-intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology, founded in 2016 with support from the Charles and ...

Rising CO₂ levels will make the upper atmosphere colder and thinner, altering how geomagnetic storms impact satellites.

Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and a faint Mercury are visible this month to the naked eye, and the best chances to spot them are ...

When we think about how radiation effects life, we usually have a negative picture in our head, but on Mars, radiation could be sustaining life.

Scientists say the findings help explain how life can exist in extreme environments using the chemical compound methane instead of sunlight.

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex stands as Florida’s monument to our collective cosmic ambition, a place where the extraordinary became possible and where history continues to unfold with each ...

An EMP could disrupt U.S. military operations, but it’s no instant knockout. Here is what’s real, and what’s hype.

Cooling in the upper atmosphere from rising CO₂ could make future geomagnetic storms deliver sharper jolts especially to ...

There may be a habitable world at the Sun's closest solar twin. In the complex space inhabited by the Alpha Centauri triple ...