The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

The discovery of Eos, the closest known molecular cloud to Earth and one of the largest structures in the night sky, hints at ...

Named Eos, the cloud of gas would appear huge in the night sky if visible to the naked eye and could shed light on solar ...

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Boise State University have found evidence suggesting that the ...

Aisling O'Hare, who led the study, told Newsweek she's "excited" about what the science world can learn from the data.

In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached ...

An important conservation message is shared in 9-year-old Sora U.’s work, titled Wildlife. The artist uses trees, an owl, ...

China's Long March 2F rocket, carrying three astronauts for the Shenzhou 20 manned space mission, lifts off for a space ...

The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

Beijing’s curbs on rare earth exports, used to make military drones, consumer electronics, electric cars and more, have ...