The fate of a comet that was predicted to pass close to Earth remains a mystery five years after its dramatic breakup in the ...
Neutrinos are very small, neutral subatomic particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter and are thus sometimes ...
As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.
Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...
We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...
A newly discovered asteroid, 2025 MN45, has forced planetary scientists to redraw one of their neatest rules of thumb. Spinning once every 1.88 minutes despite being roughly 710 meters across, it ...