NASA's bold plan to park an asteroid near the moon may also test out a new way to protect Earth from dangerous space rocks. Last year, the agency announced that it intends to tow a near-Earth asteroid ...

A new method of exoplanet detection can go beyond standard measurements like mass and distance to tell us crucial details about the planet’s atmosphere. But astronomers needed to make sure the method ...

CNN — The early warning system to detect asteroids that pose a threat to Earth, operated by NASA and its collaborators around the world, got to flex its muscles. It successfully detected a small ...

Science teachers in a summer physics class at Southeast Missouri State University relied on shadows Thursday to calculate the Earth's circumference during the summer solstice, the longest day of the ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test — a comprehensive model for estimating the origins of Earth’s habitability, based in part on ocean acidity. The new ...

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