According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

However, we might also want to look for hints of alien origin. One very strong piece of evidence would be any kind of radio ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

It is true that crewed missions to the moon are expensive, difficult, and dangerous. And we now have a long history going back decades of reliable, dependable, capable robotic exploration, including ...

I’m not sure whether it was elementary school science classes or Fred Flintstone’s Brontosaurus burgers that made the giant ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured what they believe are the very first moments of rocky planet formation around ...

The Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana is different, however. It is well preserved (not deeply eroded or buried under sediments). Its well-defined, near-circular basin, filled by a lake, is surrounded by ...

If you’ve ever looked up at the stars and felt a twinge of cosmic wonder, now is your time to lean in. The Perseids meteor ...

The last few decades have seen sci-fi TV shows evolve into something far more cerebral than just space battles and time ...