New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...

A new study challenges traditional models of how planets form. A new analysis of existing data suggests that exoplanets with masses comparable to Jupiter may have formed significantly earlier than ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

SpaceX launched the private Fram2 mission Monday (March 31), sending a crew of four spaceflight rookies into an orbit never ...

Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...

With an underlying universal theme of convection, a new textbook introduces upper-level geology, geophysics, physics, and engineering students to the geophysics behind the Earth System.

Wondering what there is to love about Jupiter? The Jovian giant has many reasons that are worthy of your affection, whether ...

The James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have captured Neptune’s auroras for the first time, revealing the planet’s ...

Plus: Observe two stunning spirals, see Venus reappear as a morning star, and enjoy the Last Quarter Moon in the sky this ...

The Milankovitch cycles, named after the Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovitch, refer to periodic variations in Earth’s orbit and axial tilt that influence the planet’s climate system ...

It sits about six light-years from Earth and is known for its quick motion across our sky. For years, astronomers have wondered whether it might harbor planets that could help us understand how ...