NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

Forget earthly demolitions and terrestrial heists; Teardown is breaking free of the atmosphere with the launch of The Greenwash Gambit.

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

Scientists estimate that the first generation of reptiles evolved between 320 and 310 million years ago, this group was later dominated by dinosaurs which paleontologists say they evolved on Earth ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...

The planets form a tightly packed, close-in system, having short orbital periods of between two and seven Earth days (for comparison, our Sun’s closest planet, Mercury, orbits in 88 days).

Barnard’s Star is a small, dim star, of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get ...

Mercury has a large metallic core that's about 85% of the planet's radius. Mercury's orbit is egg-shaped and it has no moons because of its small size, low gravity, and proximity to the sun.