NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

Hailstorms seem to be happening more frequently and the hail appears to be getting bigger. But the reasons for this might not ...

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

Hidden deep in Kazakhstan's remote steppe lies a valley filled with massive, perfectly round stone spheres. These ancient ...

To solve the Milky Way mystery, de Ruiter devised a method to identify radio pulses lasting seconds to minutes within the ...

Earth might be creating microscopic lightning bolts—and this electrical phenomenon could have sparked the chemistry of life ...

For the past 65 million years, mammals have thrived across nearly every corner of Earth. In this time span ... the planet's smallest flying mammal, these tiny animals have developed incredible ...

The task of finding planets by this method starts with building highly sensitive spectrograph instruments. They are mounted on telescopes large enough to capture sufficient light from the star.