The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is excited to announce this year’s Science Journalism Fellowship awardees: Tim Hornyak, ...

Every year, the Taurid meteor shower lights up the night sky from late October through early November. Sometimes called the ...

Scientists thought that an Australian museum’s collection of tektites came from an 800,000-year-old asteroid strike on Earth. Some of them turned out to be much older. By Katherine Kornei Every few ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

Asteroids are unpredictable and can cause massive damage if they collide with Earth. NASA is taking this threat seriously and is working to mitigate - and even deflect - asteroids that may pose a ...

The government may be shut down, but space exploration advocates are still pleading NASA's case on Capitol Hill. On Monday (Oct. 6), the nonprofit Planetary Society held a "day of action" to urge ...