How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Occasionally, asteroids get caught in Earth’s orbit, temporarily becoming mini moons before continuing their cosmic paths.

But in space or on the Moon, there are no power lines, no sunlight at night and no backup grid. Every system — from life ...

Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...

Atomic clocks — among the most precise instruments humans have ever built — have been keeping track of Earth’s spin since the ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare instance of a interstellar comet speeding through the solar system. The 3I/ATLAS was first ...

The burst was so bright that it bounced off the Moon and illuminated Earth’s upper atmosphere, surpassing the brightness of a ...

The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

The path of totality will carve an arc of darkness across the surface of our planet – at the height of the August tourist ...