In the ocean's twilight zone, where the reach of the Sun fades to nothing, an epic migration begins every time night falls.

Despite being called a "minimoon", Kamo'oalewa is not Earth's second moon. It is a rare type of asteroid known as a ...

The image, released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), shows asteroid Torifune, a roughly 450-metre-wide space rock that resembles two smaller asteroids joined together.

NASA is preparing for a rescue that sounds more like a stunt than routine mission control: send a robot into orbit, find an ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

Here's your chance to live like an astronaut as NASA seeks volunteers to live in a habitat for a year simulating future moon ...

It implies or requires that the angrite parent body had to be big, but the question is, where is it now?” CU Boulder ...

During last year’s brief visit from the comet 3I/ATLAS, astronomers got an extremely rare glimpse into the cosmos beyond our ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 metres, were it to fully melt. Yet it has puzzled scientists for decades how and why this ...

If potted plants always seem to die under your care, you can take solace in knowing that plantkind as a whole will probably ...

Quasars — the brightest objects in the universe — are powered by supermassive black holes at the heart of early galaxies.