"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...
Two moon landers on one rocket: Jan. 15 Two small uncrewed spacecraft, one of which is carrying several NASA instruments, will try to land ... asteroid, Donaldjohanson, as a sort of test sequence ...
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
On Monday, March 3, Space.com published a news report saying it was "Time to breathe a sigh of relief. The asteroid that once posed the greatest impact risk to Earth in recorded history now has an ...
A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...
The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international ...
NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at ...
Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the ...
The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...