Xinting Yu, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Texas at San Antonio, is one of two recipients of the 2025 Harold C. Urey Prize. The national award from ...

I'm a planetary scientist who was born the year of Sputnik's launch. Over the course of my 40-year career, I've witnessed not ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, ...

New research from Southwest Research Institute reveals that violent late-stage planetary collisions shaped Earth’s water, ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

A powerful software tool capable of accurately modeling how cameras capture light could help democratize the development of ...

The 1,115-foot-wide (340 meters) asteroid Apophis will pass closer to Earth than many satellites fly in April 2029, giving ...

The House committee met to discuss the commerce, justice, and science budget bill, which allocates funding to federal ...

Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He now leads the SuperCam instrument team on NASA’s Mars ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

In the search for habitable exoplanets, atmospheric conditions play a key role in determining if a planet can sustain liquid ...