She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...

NASA has since downgraded that possibility to zero percent, but the asteroid continues to be tracked by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope this week as there's a 4 percent chance it could collide with ...

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic geological feature of tectonic activity. The team’s discovery of how SMRs form ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

Astronomers have discovered a planetary system that appears to flip one of astronomy's most reliable rules on its head.

“It’s all I ever wanted to do,” said Connolly, founding chair and professor in the Department of Geology within the School of Earth & Environment and a research associate in the Department of Earth ...

The Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS) provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in astrobiology and planetary science with the research ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...