Throughout Earth's history, the planet's surface has been regularly impacted by comets, meteors, and the occasional large ...

September will see the appearance of C/2023 A3, also known as Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, that has traveled for tens of thousands of ...

It's a deceptively simple question that has puzzled astronomers since the 1960s. Now, thanks to data from NASA's New Horizons probe, they have arrived at the best-yet estimate of how dark — or rather, ...

Now, thanks to NASA's New Horizons probe, scientists have gained the most accurate measurement yet of how dark — or rather, ...

The Rotation of Earth's Inner Core Has Slowed, New Study Confirms June 13, 2024 — The new study provides unambiguous evidence that the inner core began to decrease its speed around 2010 ...

27, 2024 — Astronomers have achieved the highest resolution ever obtained from the surface of Earth. They managed this feat by detecting light from distant galaxies at a frequency of around 345 ...

There are four so-called fundamental forces in the universe: the strong nuclear force, which ensures the stability of atomic ...

It’s the object in the night sky that humanity knows best ― and the one that’s easiest to study ... Earth and Moon slows the Moon into a rotation that paces its own. The Moon rotates, but it rotates ...

A new study by MIT physicists proposes that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest ...

If that were to happen – and that's a big "if" – a remote chance exists that Apophis could be sent careening into Earth, according to a new study published in August in The Planetary Science ...