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 ...

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

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

If we slam an impactor into an asteroid in exactly the wrong spot, the space rock may pass through a "gravitational keyhole" that brings it to Earth.

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 ...

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

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

China proposes flyby mission to asteroid Apophis during 2029 Earth encounter Chinese scientists are proposing using a ...

The Life of Her Mind is dedicated to learning about how these women think — how they think about their careers, disciplines, and future. Each episode focuses on a single professional working in or ...