1+ day, 14+ min ago  (28+ words) Near-Earth Objects. Near Earth Asteroids. Meteorites have impacted planet Earth many times. Scientists review the geological records and make predictions of risks of near Earth object impacts....

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (669+ words) Jupiter Research. From Hubble's latest pictures of Jupiter's new red spot to astronomy articles on Jupiter's moons, learn all the Jupiter facts here....

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (694+ words) Researchers have created cosmic dust from scratch by recreating space-like conditions inside glass tubes. The dust contains complex carbon-rich molecules built from elements essential to life and produces infrared signals similar to real material found in space. By studying these…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (519+ words) A rare type of meteorite known as a CO chondrite was likely the object that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and triggered the extinction of about 75 percent of all species, including every non-avian dinosaur. Researchers from the University of…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (282+ words) Moon News. Current science articles on the Moon. Read about the new lunar mission being planned, how the "Man In The Moon" was created, moon landing facts and more. Images....

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (579+ words) A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million years ago. The debris was launched from near a gravitational gateway controlled by Jupiter, sending fragments toward Earth, the Moon, and…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (976+ words) New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, are giving astronomers their clearest look yet at how supermassive black holes obtain the gas they need to grow. The images reveal long strands of gas linking a galaxy's hot…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (55+ words) Scientists say new technologies have reopened the debate over whether Mars could someday be terraformed, turning a once impossible idea into a serious research topic. Before anyone tries to reshape the Red Planet, though, researchers say we must understand the…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (1025+ words) Some breakthroughs in physics come from brand new inventions. Others begin with a new theory. But many advances happen when researchers combine familiar technologies in an unexpected way and create something more powerful than the individual parts. Similar demands apply…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (953+ words) Astronomers have found strong evidence that TOI-5882, a sun-like star about 1,300 light-years from Earth, may have consumed one of its own planets. The team, led by University of Michigan astronomer Brooke Kotten, discovered an important clue in the star's chemical…...