Asteroid sample incoming: OSIRIS-REx team preps for September landing of Bennu bits
Recovery teams are gearing up for the Sept. 24 landing of OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample in the Utah desert.
Recovery teams are gearing up for the Sept. 24 landing of OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample in the Utah desert.
NASA's ambitious asteroid collision mission may have created a swarm of boulders filled with key scientific information.
While routinely scanning the sky for the burnt-out remnants of dying stars, scientists stumbled upon a strange cosmic signal.
The Library of Congress has 400 years of moon maps from around the world. Explore the moon in centuries of maps to celebrate the first-ever human moon landing in 1969.
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb believes he has found pieces of the first known interstellar meteorite. But others have their doubts, and the debate is turning ugly.
A new super-cool technique could shed light on a hidden dark matter candidate known as 'dark photons.'
Astronomers have observed a 'slow' magnetar releasing bursts of radio waves every 22 minutes. The strange neutron star could change our perception of these extreme stellar corpses.
The James Webb Space Telescope has observed carbon dust in distant and early galaxies in a discovery that could challenge theories regarding the formation of cosmic dust in the infant universe.
Astronomers have found the first evidence of a so-called 'Trojan planet,' in the form of a young Jupiter-like world that's being tailed by a cloud of dust twice as massive as Earth's moon.
A powerful magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, "glitched" when it destroyed an asteroid, causing it to blast out a fast radio burst and change rotational speed.
A dying red giant star and the remains of a stellar companion it shredded long ago have created a rare and short-lived planetary nebula that resembles an overflowing cosmic jug.
The viral story of a French woman supposedly struck by a meteorite has been questioned by experts, who say the rock is likely of terrestrial origin.
The way in which the radiant displays of colors in the sky known as auroras form on Earth may be how these lights arise throughout the solar system, according to new findings from Mercury.
The galactic bulge at the heart of the Milky Way is haunted by the ghosts of dead stars spread out as a mysterious arrangement of planetary nebulas.
Scientists have puzzled over the origins of a gravity hole in the Indian Ocean for years. Now, researchers think the sunken floor of an extinct ocean could be the cause.
Nuclear testing in the 1950s marked sediments at the bottom of a lake in Canada to such an extent that scientists are calling for it to become the symbol of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.
The coming Square Kilometre Array could shed light on mysterious dark matter, revealing the role it played in the formation of the universe's first galaxies.
Two coronal mass ejections have combined into an enormous cloud of magnetized plasma that is forecast to hit Earth on Tuesday and potentially trigger a strong geomagnetic storm.
Researchers in Canada's high Arctic are on a hunt for rusty rocks similar to those found on Mars. Their goal is to train researchers for future moon and Red Planet expeditions.