If the natural world is armed with viruses that can take us down wholesale, we have weapons that can do that too – in seconds ...

PN7, earth's second moon, is a quasi-moon — a celestial object that travels almost exactly in sync with Earth. Researchers at ...

Peggy Hollinger The planet Mars as imagined and read by science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson. Kim Stanley Robinson ...

Scientists have discovered asteroid 2025 PN7, a celestial body now identified as a quasi-satellite. This asteroid will orbit ...

Standing at the edge of Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona feels like peering into another world—a massive bowl carved into the Earth by a visitor from space that arrived with the subtlety of a ...

The celestial object is what scientists call a quasi-moon — an asteroid that orbits the sun but appears to move alongside ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...

An exclusive New Scientist survey of leading scientists reveals widespread concern that schemes to tweak Earth’s atmosphere ...

Science doesn’t typically include punchlines, meme-fame contagions, nor hawky-sized dragonflies. But when it comes to ...

Microbiologists at the University of Houston confirmed that a bacterium found in NASA spacecraft assembly rooms, called Tersicoccus phoenicis, will go dormant when it runs out of food.

We have more satellites than ever before, but when they burn up they create a new kind of air pollution. Evidence is now ...

A small asteroid, known as 2025 TF, flew over Antarctica on October 1, 2025, at an altitude of only 266 miles.