Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

NASAs Perseverance rover has collected a historic rock sample dating back to the Noachian era on Mars. This discovery could ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...