The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and ...

Scientists discover a radioactive spike of beryllium-10 (10Be) in Pacific Ocean sediments, revealing ancient climatic and cosmic events.

Every night, as telescopes around the world open their domes to study the cosmos, astronomers are forced to contend with an ...

We’ll have telescopes in our pockets that are smarter than Hubble." The not-so-good: "AI is bringing a golden age of ...

Can one discuss winning an “AI race” without the invitation of the nation’s most historic space agency to the starting gate?

If you’ve ever dreamed of exploring space, you know there’ll be some serious dangers. One of them is posed by cosmic rays. These high-speed particles slam through anything, including our bodies, ...

A supernova is one of the most powerful and awe-inspiring events in the universe. It marks the violent death of a star, and ...

Throughout history, people have viewed seasons as relatively stable, recurrent blocks of time that neatly align farming, ...

Earth has survived huge temperature swings over eons of climate change. Humans might not be so lucky.

These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed light on how human-generated emissions will shape our planet’s future.

Since the beginning of Earth's history, tiny particles of rock and metal from space have been hitting our planet. On clear ...