A new climate modeling study presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) asteroid.

Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...

When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

The idea of a lightsail comes from the fact that radiation pressure represents a mechanical pressure acting on a surface due ...

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

Br. Guy Consolmagno and Christopher M. Graney reveal how Vatican Observatory Adjunct Scholars, like Fr. Adam D. Hincks, ...

Penzias and Wilson discover Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, supporting the Big Bang theory. Fr. Hincks now uses ACT ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are scheduled to begin U.S. Spacewalk 92 early Jan. 30. Suni Williams and ...

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.