Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

The asteroid colliding with the Moon could release energy in upwards of 340 Hiroshima bombs with the spectacle very likely to ...

Scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational force. Understanding tidal dissipation ...

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

In Earth’s upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 442 kph, but they ...

Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

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

NASA's Europa Clipper will initiate a gravity assist on its journey to Jupiter. The probe will slingshot around Mars to gain speed. NASA footage ...