Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their trajectories, according to new research.

A larger suit can extend a ski jumper’s flight by several meters but it could violate rules that have become more stringent ...

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always show the same face to their star.

Earthshine is sunlight that bounces off Earth, travels to the Moon, and then reflects back to our eyes. The Moon essentially ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

New experiments reveal that protein precursors can form naturally in deep space under extreme cold and radiation. Scientists ...

Observations of the two solar system gas giants have revealed that Jupiter 's north pole hosts a central polar vortex ...

Researchers have unveiled world-first deep-ocean landers to uncover how the mysterious dark oxygen is produced in complete ...

Alexander Bobenko has spent the past 20 years chewing on mathematical doughnuts. In the 2000s, he tried to prove that compact ...

Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet have helped researchers map out an ancient coastline that surrounded a large ocean billions of years ago ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...