Despite its reputation, outer space is far from empty, and the region around our planet is particularly riddled with space ...
A group of astronauts whizzing around Earth from orbit are getting some pretty spectacular views of our planet's poles – and ...
A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still ...
The universe is a pretty big place,' Carl Sagan said. 'If it is just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.' Did God ...
This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...
Solar flares are classified based on their strength and fall into five designated categories: A, B, C, M and X. An X-class solar flare is the most intense type of solar flare and can produce as ...
There is a second round of observations set for May 2025, before the asteroid could disappear into the outer solar system for ...
Shohei Ohtani may be the best two-way baseball player on planet Earth, but an astronaut who hails from the same country has ...
In their new book, Space Piracy: Preparing for a Criminal Crisis in Orbit (Wiley, 2025), Feldman and Taylor lay out a case ...
A pair of planetary scientists at the University of California, working with a colleague from the California Institute of ...
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...
Girguis, a professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, specializes in biochemistry and ecological physiology ...