Earth has been around for 4.543 billion years. At numerous times during that long history, our planet has shared itself with the rest of the Solar System, particularly with our immediate neighbors. Sc ...

SpaceX has long focused on building the technology needed to send humans to Mars, but Elon Musk has hinted at an even larger ...

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...

Continued study of the 2022 mission which slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid found a small, but growing change in orbit around the Sun.

Samples from Ryugu, a small, near-Earth asteroid, preserve natural remanent magnetization (NRM) from the early history of the solar system. However, despite multiple studies, there is currently no ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

This reason is enough to delay the Artemis II mission further, says a Mexican nuclear physicist to the Starlust team.

System at the cross road The humanitarian system has been on a transformative journey for many years, anchored in the vital principle of saving lives and the dignity of the people affected by natural ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense test. New observations show how it went.

Impey, Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, will receive the Lewis Thomas ...

But in 2006, Pluto was in the headlines again, as the Paris-based International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefined “planet” in a such a way that it was excluded from the official canon.