Asteroid tracking rarely produces a clean, single number that captures how worried anyone should actually be, and the case of ...

In a new Nature Communications study, researchers developed a universal scaling framework for the strength of granular ...

Asteroid Bennu, the near-Earth object NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission sampled in 2020, has long been treated by scientists as a ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman led a return visit to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on Sept. 2 as part of ...

Nitrogen is a key ingredient in the biomolecules that form the building blocks of life. Yet as an unbonded gas, it is far ...

Our solar system is filled with rocky debris tumbling around the sun, most of which is the same age, but sometimes you find ...

Ryugu asteroid prebiotic chemistry advances with a 2026 Nature Astronomy study confirming that Hayabusa2 samples show ancient ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is closing in on the asteroid Bennu after more than two years of flight and is sending home some incredible travel photographs. This week, “super resolution” images of the ...

Nevertheless, the work represents an important step in evaluating the nuclear option for planetary defence. It demonstrates that a standoff detonation using X-ray radiation can indeed seriously damage ...

Dr. Martha Leake, professor of astronomy and physics in VSU’s College of Science and Mathematics, presented “August Skies, ...

The fall schedule of shows at the William M. Thomas Planetarium is now posted. In my final semester of hosting planetarium ...

Today: “You know Aries and Cancer and Draco and Libra. Leo and Pisces and Virgo and Hydra. But do you recall, the pointiest ...