Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes difficult pursuit of tracking deep-space objects.

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Most of us learned about the law of conservation of matter and energy in a science class in the elementary grades. It states that matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed but can be ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly United States, ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been confirmed, most have been gas giants ranging from ...

The surprising January heat record coincides with a new study by a climate science heavyweight, former top NASA scientist ...

New research shows that meteoroid impacts on Mars generate seismic signals that travel much deeper than previously thought, ...

A new climate modeling study presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) asteroid.

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...