Backyard astronomers, take note: Jupiter and Earth are approaching their near-yearly rendezvous, and this time the two planets will be closer together than they have been since 1963.
Laser altimetry data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have provided a comprehensive look at the cratering history of the inner solar system
Aerospace and defense giant Boeing has tossed its hat into the space-tourism ring, announcing that it has agreed to market future rides into Earth orbit to paying customers.
A group of physicists has built what may be the world's gentlest cannon, a device that pushes tiny particles along using laser light at about a hundredth the walking speed of the average human...
Large arrays of pressure sensors could lend a human sense of touch to robots and might someday form the basis of better prosthetics
Just a few quantum objects could form the basis for a self-contained cooling machine
A new album from the group One Ring Zero envisions a journey through the solar system and beyond
Impact-delivered graphite discovered in Apollo moon rock
A new book highlights the most unique locations in the solar system, some of which are surprisingly close to home
A space-based survey of 101 objects that pass relatively close to Earth has found they have a wide range of reflectivity, indicating that their composition is varied as well.
When Brazilian defender Roberto Carlos struck a powerful free-kick from about 30 meters out in a 1997 international match against France, he could not have known that scientists would still be discussing his feat more than a dozen years later...
A new study proposes that ultrahigh-energy particles from space may have violent local origins, but not all observations are in agreement
From daily wake-up songs to portable music players, music is a big part of life in orbit
Electromagnetic pulses from far-flung celestial objects can provide a sort of scale with which to gauge the mass of the planets, according to a new study.
A planetary system 125 light-years away could represent the largest collection of known worlds outside the solar system
Could modern civilization really come to an end? Experts take stock of eight doomsday scenarios
A new analysis of a meteorite shows that an inclusion within the carbonaceous stone is older than any known material in the solar system. The finding pushes back the estimated age of the solar system to 4.568 billion years, older than previous estimates by up to 1.9 million years...
The influential decadal survey champions the pursuit of potentially habitable worlds but offers few details for the near future
There is no such thing as the Nobel Prize in Mathematics, but fortunately the field of math dishes out its own top honors every four years, bestowing the prestigious Fields Medal on two to four researchers...
It's an unfortunate fact of life that people often shrink a bit as they age. But we can at least take solace in the fact that the moon, too, seems to be have gotten a bit smaller of late...
