Unlike larger asteroids, 2024 YR4 exhibits unique thermal behaviour—likely due to its rapid rotation and a surface dominated ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed images of asteroid 2024 YR4, a near-Earth object that initially raised concerns.

YR4, first discovered in December 2024, triggered a first-ever notification from the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

Computer modelling approach on impact of volcanic eruptions, wildfires and ship emissions reduction as natural analogues of solar radiation management ...

Global warming continues to surge, driven by rising greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists across the world agree: unless these ...

Using data collected by the spacecraft’s LEISA spectral imager, researchers are uncovering the true nature of Nix’s surface coarse, pure water ice that behaves like rock due to the extreme cold of ...

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed ...

A new lightsail design could help lay the path for interstellar travel at speeds around one-fifth the speed of light ...

Snow in the Rockies now silently carries toxic metals from mines, revealing long-range pollution by winter storms.

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...

Lightsails should enable space missions to other stars. Researchers from the USA and the Netherlands have significantly ...