How will NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission differentiate Earth-sized exoplanets from other exoplanets, specifically Earth-sized exoplanets within the habitable zone, also ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect Earth from the threat of an asteroid impact. By smashing a ...

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect us. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins AP ...

Plastic waste piles up faster than we can handle it. A new lab method shows that some of the most stubborn plastics can be turned into useful fuel and a common industrial chemical in one go. In a peer ...

AI models used ancient zircons to reveal Earth’s earliest crust chemistry, solving a long-standing geologic mystery. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) In Earth’s early days, more than 4 billion years ago, the ...

Johns Hopkins applied mathematicians and astronomers have developed a new method to render images from ground-based telescopes as clear as those taken from space, a process that stands to expand the ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a chance of hitting the moon. To save it from collision, scientists are considering launching a nuclear bomb at the asteroid.

Minnesota students’ science test scores dropped this year amid news science standards, according to the state Department of Education. Overall, 25.7% of students met or exceeded the new standards.

After testing five sources of flood data, their analysis found that combining or comparing data could improve disaster response and recovery.

A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions. Scientists tracked the complete cosmic collision, confirming that black ...

Japan has a remarkable idea for disposing of space junk and debris without the need to ever come into contact with it, which could help keep orbit safe.