The sky of the planet Venus could soon be the scene of a meteor shower. This possibility stems from the study of two ...

My friend Larry Lebofsky has been studying asteroids since we first met as students, more than 50 years ago. Now approaching 80 years old, he still spends a ...

Science journalist Adam Becker speaks with DeSmog about how Silicon Valley tech billionaires have invented new forms of greenwashing and climate denial in their quest for ever-more fantastic ...

"The world must be able to execute a nuclear deflection mission with high confidence, yet cannot conduct a real-world test in ...

January brought a wide range of thoughtful science conversations featuring researchers from the SETI Institute, spanning everything from hands-on planetary defense with citizen scientists to careful ...

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany and the Centro de Astrobiología, part of ...

L3Harris Technologies, a massive defense contractor with offices in Colorado Springs and around the world, hs been awarded a $62.7 million contract modification to keep the nation’s space surveillance ...

Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...

A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...

So, space tourism is on the table. We’re talking about trips that could take people to the edge of space and maybe even ...

By creating a 'little bit of the Universe in a bottle' in her lab, a PhD student in physics has reverse-engineered the ...