An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was ...

The breakthrough came from a rare space rock known as LAR 12252, a meteorite known as an enstatite chondrite. Scientists believe these meteorites are made from the same stuff that formed the early ...

By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is so small that, on the surface of Mars, Deimos would only appear about as ...

This wasn't just any CME, it was a rare 'cannibal' CME formed when two CMEs, launched in quick succession by a double filament eruption on the sun, merged as they traveled through space.

Witness the majestic spiral arms of Galaxy NGC 1300, a barred spiral galaxy 61 million light-years away. Behold the birthplace of stars in the NGC 3324 region, a vast star-forming area in the ...

"The picture features a rare cosmic phenomenon — an Einstein ring. What appears to be a single, strangely shaped galaxy is actually two galaxies far apart," the European Space Agency explained ...

The Trump administration has opened an investigation that could result in tariffs on rare-earth minerals and other critical materials. The news has the two large U.S.-based rare-earth companies ...

Researchers have identified a rogue black hole, marking the first time such an isolated object has been confirmed in deep ...

A triple planetary conjunction is lighting up the skies with a “smiley face” on April 25, thanks to Venus, Saturn and the crescent moon coming into this rare and playful alignment. A triple ...

The United States obtains more than half of them, including a category of 17 minerals known as “rare earths,” mostly from China. And this week, China tightened its export restrictions on six ...

He is renowned for the variety of photographs he has taken from the space station, including those of rare space weather phenomena like dazzling auroras and strange flashes of lightning.