A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

For observers in India, Neptune will be visible throughout most of the night on September 20-21, rising in the east just as ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more ...

Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.

"Our observations indicate the presence of powerful iron winds, probably fuelled by a hot spot in the atmosphere." ...

The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.

China set to unveil long-term vision for space science The Chinese Academy of Sciences is aiming to accelerate its progress ...

Dubbed "araneiform terrain," the Mars surface formations span over a half-mile long and have hundreds of branches that ...

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are 'Snowball Earth' events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.

Scientists in the United Kingdom have stored the entire human genome on a “5D memory crystal,” in the hope that it could be ...

Check these five spectacular NASA images from space posted on their Instagram handle, which keeps us updated with all the ...