A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...

While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...

There is a direct link between Earth's crust formation and meteorite impacts influenced by the Milky Way's structure, as ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, ...

The third interstellar object ever observed is in our neighborhood—for now. And, asteroid Bennu could contain dust from ...

A high-precision time measurement system based on the radioactive decay of manganese-53 was used to determine the precise age ...

X-ray scans reveal rare chemical signatures in asteroid grains that hint at water, organics and the building blocks of life.

One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere.

A study conducted on a near-Earth asteroid could call into question details we thought we knew about how our planet's oceans ...