A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proximity also offers ample opportunities to learn more about ...

scientists for the first time in history are able to retrieve handpicked samples — ranging from rock cores the size of a piece of blackboard chalk, to collections of fragmented rocks the ...

Colin Snodgrass, a professor of planetary astronomy at the University of Edinburgh has said the asteroid will “most likely pass by harmlessly”. He added: “It just deserves a little more ...

So her aide sought the perspective of an iconoclastic MIT professor, Theodore A. Postol, who in the months after the attack had released preliminary research suggesting that the use of chemical ...

the Bulletin’s science and security board chair and professor in the department of physics, astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago, in a news briefing Tuesday. “The countries that ...

an astrophysics professor at Australia's University of Southern Queensland, told Newsweek. Due to its proximity to the Earth, 2025 BS4 is classified as a near-Earth object (NEO), which are defined ...

I almost concluded it was an actual NEO and stopped looking, but I asked around on the Minor Planet Mailing List just to erase my final doubts" G told Astronomy. It was then that Jonathan McDowell ...

A University of Colorado Boulder professor had his tenure revoked on Thursday, after the university found he neglected his duties and engaged in conduct that falls below minimum standards of ...

The training continues, with the lead baristas (Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner) explaining that “a fun part of working at this cafe is writing quippy jokes for our chalkboard out front.” Benny seems ...

While that federal ban has been in place for decades, John Barentine of Dark Sky Consulting, a member of AAS’s Committee for the Protection of Astronomy and the Space Environment (COMPASSE ...

2, saying it was spotted hurling through the final frontier roughly 150,000 miles from Earth, according to Astronomy magazine. Its distance was closer to the planet than the moon— prompting the ...