Is it a meteor shower? Space debris? No, it's something much, much worse. Our nearest neighbor is a full Moon no more. The ...

Abu Dhabi’s Natural History Museum has opened to the public, taking the shape of pentagonal natural rock formations to ...

The pristine interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is theorised to be covered in ice cryovolcanoes, challenging all models of comet ...

When ancient microbes died, they did not leave skeletons though some have argued controversially that colonies left ancient microstructures ...

The Cincinnati Observatory posted a video of a fireball spotting in Cincinnati skies and reported the observatory’s first ...

Deep in the Libyan Sahara lies Jabal Arkanū, a massive, near-perfect set of stone rings once mistaken for a meteorite impact ...

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"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...

Clear skies are expected for the Geminid Meteor Shower, offering the perfect chance to see bright, colorful meteors streaking ...

A group of researchers from Japan and the United States have detected six types of sugar in rock and dust samples from an asteroid that could show ingredients for life existed outside Earth.

The ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and NASA's Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit (Johnson Space Center) collaborate ...

Bennu is a primitive rock. It has remained mostly unchanged since the birth of our solar system around 4.6 billion years ago. On September 24, 2023, dust and mineral samples were hauled to Earth by ...