Occasionally, asteroids get caught in Earth’s orbit, temporarily becoming mini moons before continuing their cosmic paths.

University of Virginia scientists discover new cell organelle called "hemifusome" that helps manage cellular recycling.

Chinese scientists push for cubesat swarm mission to fly by infamous asteroid Apophis China could launch a mission involving ...

Human beings have enjoyed a unique and lonely role among intelligences. Do other minds exist in life's other kingdoms? With ...

The formation of Heart Mountain near Cody is a story of a block of rock the size of Rhode Island moving at 700 mph, an ...

The European Space Agency’s satellite will measure trunks, branches and stems in forests to shed light on how much carbon is ...

Places such as Purgatory Chasm and Millstone Hill, in Worcester's Green Hill Park, bear witness to the work of the glaciers.

Mathematicians soon hypothesized that as your set gets bigger, the biggest sum-free subsets will get much larger than N /3.

Scientists have made significant progress in drilling into the Earth’s crust, reaching unprecedented depths that bring them ...

Identifying viable impact scenarios that can reproduce the internal structure of Mercury, which is mainly composed of an iron core, is a long-standing problem.

Despite a series finale that solve its main plot threads, Battlestar Galactica left many details of its lore purportedly ...

A recent study published in Nature Astronomy revives the debate about the origin of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in ...