A meteor cluster reveals an asteroid disintegrating near the Sun. These observations help uncover hidden asteroids and ...

Radio waves from black holes reveal unusual orbital patterns and hidden jet activity, offering new insights into cosmic behavior ...

The frequency of fireballs in our planet’s skies seemed to grow in recent months. NASA and other meteor experts can’t agree ...

In “Why Do We Exist?” Hakeem Oluseyi explores how life may emerge to move energy through matter—and why Earth is the perfect ...

The Apophis asteroid, once feared to hit Earth, is less than three years from making an unprecedented approach toward Earth.

Research findings are available online in the journal Nature Astronomy. The original story “ Frozen ocean world found lurking between Mars and Jupiter ” is published in The Brighter Side of News. Like ...

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the scientists who study these meteors. Most movies and news alerts focus on ...

The scars on Ceres should have softened by now. That was the long-running problem. If the dwarf planet’s crust held a great deal of ice, many of its craters should have slowly sagged over geologic ...

Across the Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the scientists who study these meteors. Most movies and news alerts focus ...