A new international study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that the boundaries between geological ...

Space weathering expert Michelle Thompson OSIRIS-REx reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly. These results help shed light onto the ...

The task helps them survey the vast landscapes of the universe — from the Earth to the moon — in a space known as the Heat ...

Blobs of rock are dripping off the underside of North America, likely caused by the remnants of a tectonic plate deep in ...

Stanford scientists reveal that meandering rivers existed long before plants stabilized their banks, challenging a central ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, an asteroid caught by Earth's gravity might have fragmented, creating a temporary ring ...

One such visitor, asteroid 2025 PM2, is currently on a trajectory near Earth, capturing the attention of scientists, ...

The Near-Earth Object Surveyor is a $1.4-billion infrared telescope with a single mission: to hunt asteroids and comets that could pose a danger to Earth. Astronomers have already identified ...

"One of the things that we're able to do now that wasn't possible in the '70s, when the museum first opened, is to create ...

Headed for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche spacecraft successfully calibrated its cameras by looking ...

Tucson planetary scientist Faith Vilas is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Gerard P. Kuiper Prize from the American ...

In July, the U.S. Senate appropriations committee advanced a bill that would reject the 47% science cut, instead funding NASA at $24.9 billion and preserving key Earth and planetary missions.