While meteors of this size enter Earth's atmosphere two to three times each year, the odds of them passing over a ...

Russia’s war has left many of Ukraine’s world-class observatories in ruins—but the besieged nation’s astronomers already have plans to rebuild and recover ...

Quantum materials, astronomy, and life sciences research at UBC got a major boost with the latest round of Canada Foundation for Innovation Award Funding.

Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)—a ten-year survey ...

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from seeing what it’s made of. Observations from JWST revealed that this haze may ...

Astronomers have slammed SpaceX and Reflect Orbital plans for unnaturally brightening skies and disrupting ecosystems.

When the Nobel Prize in Physics was announced in Stockholm in October 2013, the world was watching. Among the names read out ...

Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). A tiny stash of asteroid dust may help answer one of science’s oldest questions: how much of life’s chemistry began in space? In a groundbreaking study ...

The Franklin Institute will celebrate International Astronomy Day with a lineup of space-themed activities on Saturday, April ...

When Ukrainian forces retook the site of the Braude Radio Astronomy Observatory in September 2022 after forcing a Russian retreat, they found the facility still stood—but barely. Collapsed roofs, ...

In January, while examining ancient texts at Italy’s National Central Library of Florence, historian Ivan Malara found an ...

A 2022 NASA mission changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos around its companion. New data shows their joint orbit around ...