A newly discovered comet is about to make its closest pass to Earth on Tuesday night. It should be visible over the Bay Area before it disappears — and won’t be seen again for more than a thousand ...

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

Dust brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e-6 mission contains rare meteorite relics that could change our understanding of sources of water and other life-essential ingredients in our solar system.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Much like the murky waters of the deep ocean, the unpredictable fluidity of Earth’s atmosphere can distort any light that ...

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

This was the first solar wind that was tracked by NASA's PUNCH Mission, a constellation of four 'travel bag'-sized small ...

Changes in moist tropical forests of Australia may demonstrate future climate change response of more extensive forests of ...