Chorus waves, quick bursts of energy known to occur relatively close to Earth and around other planets, were found in an ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

A research team led by Dr. Sofia Sheikh of the SETI Institute, in collaboration with the Characterizing Atmospheric ...

The probability of humanity being the sole technological civilization in the observable universe is considered to be less ...

Last week, scientists who analyzed the rubble from a near-Earth asteroid reported their first detailed findings. The ...

The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...