The Orionid Meteor Shower is famous for fast meteors with glittering wakes known as 'trains' that sometimes linger for ...

But climate change is disrupting this circular process. The build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has raised ...

By devoting itself to saving GFDL’s research once again, with both financial and political capital, the University has the ...

CI chondrites are the most water- and volatile-rich of meteorites, with compositions similar to space rocks like Ryugu and Bennu. They are very porous and 'wet', with up to 20 percent of their weight ...

The ice giants remain some of the most interesting places to explore in the solar system. Uranus in particular has drawn a ...

Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting increases.

Launches of radiation monitors took place concurrently on 17 October at Met Office sites in Lerwick and Camborne, where Dr ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...

NASA officials respond to reports claiming an exoplanet-hunting balloon crashed in Texas, with the project’s lead scientist explaining what really happened.

Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting ...