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 ...

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

TRAPPIST-1, a planetary system 40 light years from Earth, could host a planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, but astronomers can’t be certain just yet.

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 ...

Is astrology fake or real? Discover the science behind astrology, explore myths vs facts, and uncover how the universe might ...

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

Curtin researchers have helped uncover evidence of a mysterious giant asteroid impact, hidden not in a crater but in tiny ...

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

Astronomers observed asteroid 2023 CX1 from discovery to its abrupt explosion over France, offering rare insights into sudden airbursts and planetary defense risks.

The study noted that only one location, primarily in the Australian state of South Australia, has so far yielded the recently ...

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