Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life impossible. But new climate models challenge that idea, showing that ...

The threat from space rock 2024 YR4 has surpassed that of Apophis, an asteroid feared by scientists 20 years ago. The danger remains low, but experts are estimating the damage that could be done.

China has created the first helicopter-borne geophysical electromagnetic detection device that can peer beneath the Earth's ...

The YR4 spans 100 meters and its impact would be comparable to eight million tons of dynamite.

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid ...

Scientists accidentally discovered that the Earth's inner core might not be how we thought it was - and it could affect the length of a day.

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

It would be difficult for one company to provide comprehensive weather data in a reliable way that is also accessible to the ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans will have the chance in March to see the first total lunar eclipse in nearly three years.