The solar system’s most massive planet, Jupiter, will make its closest approach to Earth for 59 years...
Science & Astronomy
Comets are comets, and asteroids are asteroids … except when they’re not. Some asteroids appear to be...
This series of four images for the James Webb Space Telescope shows the first exoplanet (star) seen...
Climate tipping points — the “points of no return” past which key components of Earth’s climate will...
When it comes to searching for newly born planets that are tens, if not hundreds, if not...
Just over a year ago, a space rock hurtled through the Martian atmosphere, broke apart, and slammed...
When a future house for astronauts explodes, a celebration might seem inappropriate, but engineers at a commercial...
This week, NASA announced it was “excited” about finding something called organics on Mars. Life, as we...
The Perseverance rover’s search for signs of ancient Mars life has picked up considerably. For the past...
The universe may contain extremely dense and exotic hypothetical cosmic objects known as strange quark stars. While...
