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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...