On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. 1. Federal agencies. Dozens of federal workers gathered in Washington, DC, on Tuesday to pro ...

Photos from Mars have sparked a discussion about mysterious doors on the planet. The material surprised many, as the ...

Photos from Mars have sparked a discussion about mysterious "doors" on the planet. The images surprised many, as the ...

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Imagine a future where deep space explorers send high-definition video messages from the surface of Mars, or where scientific ...

The IGNIS project, a collaboration with Australian universities, will use sensors to provide a “3D view inside a thundercloud ...

A tiny Japanese satellite has shown that it can take the highest quality photos of the Earth in history. The suitcase-sized satellite sent back photos with a resolution of 2.5 meters.

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...

A pair of astrophysicists with Aix- Marseille Université, CNRS, and Institut Universitaire de France have developed a new ...

What can a moon’s tidal friction teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Science ...

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