New details about the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid - the one which wiped out the dinosaurs - have been revealed after researchers created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor. Around 66 ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

a NASA-funded asteroid detection program with telescopes around the world — at its station in Chile. With an estimated diameter of 130 to 300 feet, it wouldn’t be a world-ender, but it could ...

if you have a stone asteroid or a metal asteroid,” Fieber-Beyer said. Although NASA and other astronomers across the world are watching, Fieber-Beyer fears efforts and awareness of the dangers ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...