An international team of 45 researchers studying meteor showers has found that not all comets crumble the same way when they approach the Sun. In a...

What’s the difference between an asteroid and a comet? A comet is basically a dirty iceball composed of rock and ice. The classic image is of a...

Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a Kobe University researcher realized that the Solar System's biggest...

Engineers at Johns Hopkins University have made exciting discoveries about how materials like sand and rock behave when hit by extreme forces. This...

Engineers at Johns Hopkins University have made exciting discoveries about how materials like sand and rock behave when hit by extreme forces. This...

When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon called Dimorphos in 2022, the moon was significantly...

After the death of a massive, spinning star, the ripples generated in spacetime could shake the universe. These ripples, called gravitational waves,...

Scientists are working to understand dark matter, a mysterious substance that forms most of the universe’s mass. This is one of the biggest...

Beer could taste better if brewed in space Scientists have found that creating lager in microgravity - similar to the conditions experienced in...

The James Webb Space Telescope has made an exciting discovery—six strange, starless objects that are floating freely in space. These objects, called...