A surprising discovery has been unveiled by astronomers as they have categorized the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid.The recent announcement marks a significant milestone in the detection of

The mining operation is in Utah County's Lake Mountains. A Utah-based company announced it has uncovered 16 critical minerals and rare earth elements at Silicon Ridge in Utah County’s Lake Mountains.

NASA technology discovered a “super-Earth” exoplanet emitting “strange signals.” Rating: Mostly True (About this rating?) What's True: Scientists using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered an exoplanet, which NASA defines ...

— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface temperature perhaps averaging a balmy 72 degrees.

You may have heard a lot of online chatter about Earth's two moons recently, but that doesn't quite get the discovery right. Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon oribiting about 239,000 miles away. However, experts ...

As part of the agency's efforts to enable broader use of space, NASA has released its final goals and objectives for low Earth orbit, defining the long-term approach toward advancing microgravity science, technology, and ... The Hubble Space Telescope was ...

There are roughly 2.5 million known species on the planet, but scientists estimate that's only a fraction of the biodiversity on Earth. A new study shows we're finding new species like never before.

A team of Italian astronomers discovered a fossil galaxy estimated to be 3 billion light-years away from Earth, making it the most distant spectacle of its kind outside of the local universe. Dubbed KiDS J0842+0059, the fossil galaxy was found by the ...

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.