Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...

Get up to speed on gamma rays, the radiation responsible for creating the Red Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World.

University of Iowa researchers found in a new study that images of Earth that kindle "blue marble awe" could create more favorable views of renewable energy and the environment.

Year after year, humanity is setting new records for the amount of stuff we're sending into the Earth's orbit, spurred mostly ...

Some whittled down to just 30 percent of their original size, an adaptation to increasing temperatures known as the ...

William Matthaeus, the Martin A. Pomerantz Chair of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, has won UD’s highest faculty honor — the Francis Alison Award — in recognition of his ...

As best as anyone can tell, if any hazardously sized asteroid were to hit Earth in the relatively near future, it would most ...

Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.

The Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, took flight during evening twilight, when light from ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander is on its way to the moon, capturing amazing images of Earth. Launched on January 15, 2025, on a SpaceX Falcon 9, it is part of NASA’s lunar programme.

The wacky, the wild, and the weird. E ven if you weren’t someone who got excited about science class in school, now—as an ...

NASAs Perseverance rover has collected a historic rock sample dating back to the Noachian era on Mars. This discovery could provide insights into the formation of planets over 4.1 billion years ago ...