In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

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Year after year, humanity is setting new records for the amount of stuff we're sending into the Earth's orbit, spurred mostly ...

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact." ...

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

The research adds to ongoing efforts by space agencies to protect astronauts against deconditioning/getting out of shape due ...

Scientists are debating multiple options to deal with an asteroid which could hit Earth in 2032 – but one is emerging as the ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...

The risk assessment of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 has increased from a chance of 1.2% impact over the last week ...

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday.

TOULOUSE—Scheduled for launch in April, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Biomass mission will help scientists better ...