What looked like a mysterious exoplanet was actually the sparkling debris from a violent collision between massive space rocks.
A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of ...
Outer space never fails to remind us just how much we don't know. Astronomers have uncovered a lemon-shaped planet that ...
Association of paleopalynological data from the Nanxiong Basin, south China, and late Paleocene niche expansion in endemic Asian fossil mammals.
David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...
In geometry, there are surfaces that do without an inside or outside—and some need at least four dimensions to exist ...
On December 19, avid skywatchers can catch a glimpse of the mysterious visitor through powerful binoculars or a telescope ...
The comet will come much closer to Jupiter in March, zipping within 33 million miles (53 million kilometers). It will be the mid-2030s before it reaches interstellar space, never to return, said Paul ...
Space is full of unsolved mysteries, and a team using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have recently turned up a doozy.
We all have that one friend who supposedly "has everything" or the picky relative who returns your thoughtful presents before ...
As the planet edges towards 1.5°C of global warming, a new study led by the Natural History Museum, London has revealed that ...
On 13 November, the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamic Explorers (EscaPADE) mission launched to space on the New ...