The House committee met to discuss the commerce, justice, and science budget bill, which allocates funding to federal ...

Over the course of more than two decades, researchers at the University of Bern have developed the so-called "Bern model," a ...

Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

Planetary scientists believe they can now predict the green glow of an aurora in the night sky above Mars, and they have the ...

On the Red Planet, aurorae glow green because the charged particles collide with oxygen atoms high above Mars. They may be ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

Impact history should be considered a key factor in the search for habitable Earth-like exoplanets. Southwest Research ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

In 2029, asteroid Apophis will skim safely past Earth, where it will be visible to billions. For scientists, it's a once-in-a ...

Scientists have calculated the odds of a catastrophic asteroid impact compared to other causes of death—to surprising results ...

To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique ...