A massive comet trail may have caused climate upheaval on Earth more than 12,000 years ago, sparking the Younger Dryas.

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Space is filled with deadly forces, supernovae, gamma ray bursts, and asteroid impacts that can wipe out life in an instant.

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A red supergiant star is surrounded by a sphere of dust and gas so large there is no known explanation for what produced it ...

Neutron stars are one of the most fascinating and extreme phenomena in the universe. These stellar remnants form when massive ...

Mars, Europa and Enceladus are the three most promising locations in the solar system to search for life living off cosmic rays.

Answer 17: A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in space. A meteor is the streak of light produced when a meteoroid enters Earth’s atmosphere. A meteorite is a meteoroid that survives passage ...

Ideon Technologies team onsite at Fireweed Metals' Macpass project, 2024. Muon tomography successfully maps critical minerals and geologica ...

Every night, as telescopes around the world open their domes to study the cosmos, astronomers are forced to contend with an ...

In the US Space Force, they're called Guardians, not troops. Staring into their screens at a base in the suburbs of Denver, ...

Astronomers using ALMA have captured the first evidence of a stellar jet interacting with a planet-forming disk, suggesting that planet formation may be far more chaotic than previously thought.