Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever collected. These fragments date back 4.5 billion years and contain salts, ...

China is assembling a 'planetary defence' team to monitor asteroids as fears grow over the 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is ...

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the ...

Freezing rain occurs when snow falls into a pocket of warmer air, where it melts, before reaching a thin layer of ...

Teachers can engage students in creative, informative activities to learn more about the spring equinox and how it is ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory ...

Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...

Discover the extraordinary Einstein ring discovered by the Euclid space telescope. A perfect ring of light encircling galaxy ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

NOAA operates fleets of satellites, sensors on airplanes and ocean-going buoys, as well as radar, providing the data used by ...

Scientists used to believe that when a massive impact created the Moon, it also delivered a lot of water to Earth. However, this study challenges that idea. Instead, it suggests that Earth got its ...