These chemical oddities may explain why Earth seems to be deficient in certain elements — and could prove useful in catalysts ...
When a defunct Russian imaging satellite suddenly shattered in orbit, astronauts on the International Space Station were ordered into their return capsules and told to brace for impact. The incident, ...
The Sun turns, but not in the way a solid object would. It has no hard surface, no fixed edge to follow. What scientists describe as solar rotation comes from watching patterns move across a glowing, ...
Snow Moon, the last full moon of the winter, is here.
Astronomers are closing in on what looks like a rare prize: a world almost the size of Earth, circling a Sun-like star at a ...
Many objects in space rotate. Earth completes a spin in roughly 24 hours, while Venus takes a whopping 243 Earth days. The ...
SpaceX (SPACE) seeks U.S. approval for a constellation of a million satellites that could function as orbital data centers. Read more here.
Jupiter’s swirling storms have concealed its true makeup for centuries, but a new model is finally peeling back the clouds.
For the first time, scientists have used satellite data to create a 3D map of the sun's interior magnetic field, the ...
A bus-size asteroid is racing through space on a trajectory that will bring it close to Earth, and NASA is watching it with ...
In 1905, Albert Einstein revolutionized physics by demonstrating that time is not absolute but relative to the observer's ...
Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.