Did you know that up to 60% of near-Earth objects could be dark comets? These mysterious celestial bodies orbit our sun and ...
Aug. 12, 2024 — Quakes and meteor impacts on Mars generate seismic waves that can help map the interior. A new study analyzed seismic waves detected by the Insight lander and concludes that 11 ...
July 24, 2024 — Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters' vast clouds of dark matter have decoupled from the so-called normal ..
Carvings at a site in Turkey could depict a devastating ancient comet strike that ushered in the dawn of civilization, a new ...
NEOWISE, NASA's mission dedicated to tracking near-Earth objects, has been decommissioned after over ten years of service.
NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft is about to return to Earth in a blaze of glory after 15 years of service. The NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) mission has been using a ...
Fifteen years after a launch that was intended to begin just a seven-month mission, NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft has finally shut down.
The Amazon Rainforest is known in part as one of the biggest carbon reserves on the planet (despite our best efforts to make it less so). A new study from U.S. and Brazilian scientists discerns ...
The Perseid meteor shower is one of the best shooting star displays of the year. The next Perseid meteor shower peaks around the night of Aug. 11 and before dawn on Aug.12, 2024, with good viewing ...
Scientists expect the Chang'e 6 samples to deliver not only key geologic knowledge about the moon, but also improve their ...
A Turkish site thought to predate the Great Pyramid of Giza by seven millennia is host to mysterious carvings that archeologists believe could depict a devastating ancient comet strike. The ...