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After leaving Earth, Tianwen-2 will reach Kamo‘oalewa by July 2026. This tiny, elongated asteroid likely spans no more than ...

New research claims that Venus could be hiding dangerous asteroids capable of destruction if they collide with Earth.

A new study may finally explain how planets can end up orbiting their stars at extremely large distances—sometimes hundreds ...

The James Webb Telescope just took a photo of a newly discovered exoplanet. Exciting stuff but the raw image just looks like a small, faint dot—not a fully detailed world. The que ...

In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and ...

Two Harvard researchers, Tom McMahon and Jim Glasheen, began studying the phenomenon in the 1990s. They developed a ...

JWST has detected the earliest galaxies in the universe, but some look “more mature” than expected. Is it time to rethink how ...

"The re-entries are really rising quickly. If we stop measuring what is happening in the atmosphere right now, we could be ...

There’s a new object in the distant reaches of our solar system, and it might just offer clues to a long-standing cosmic ...

Traces of ruthenium in Hawaiian lava reveal long-suspected core–mantle leakage.

NASA hasn’t landed humans on Mars yet. But thanks to robotic missions, scientists now know more about the planet’s surface ...