As global temperatures rise, our oceans are heating up. Scientists recently found that warmer ocean temperatures are leading ...
The comet will come much closer to Jupiter in March, zipping within 33 million miles. It will be the mid-2030s before it ...
"This Week in Space" hosts Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss a weird rock that was spotted on the Red Planet by NASA's ...
Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.
A bus-size asteroid is on course to skim past our planet, a reminder that Earth moves through a shooting gallery of rocks and ...
NASA's Perseverance rover has just captured proof of lightning in Mars, which appears to spawn in the whirlwinds that roam its surface.
Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air ...
Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...
A NASA planetary scientist has proposed what may be the first scientifically sound explanation for the mysterious Star of Bethlehem that guided the three wise men to the infant Jesus over two ...
NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...
A NASA rover that launched from Florida detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes whirling on Mars' ...
For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...