Imminent loss of NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT will severely diminish scientists’ ability to monitor ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere.

YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

Some NASA Earth science missions have been told to prepare termination plans given the potential for major budget cuts in the ...

The red dwarf star, about six light-years from Earth, hosts four close-in planets ... Cornell University and a graduate certificate in science writing from University of California, Santa Cruz.

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 light-years from Earth, putting them in contention as targets of missions for future human generations.

When the universe gives you asteroid lemons, you should make science lemonade ... meaning its orbit regularly intersects that of Earth, thus creating the potential for an impact.

Stuart Gietel-Basten at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology points out ... and other places with very sophisticated registration systems, based on one or two data points.” ...

The other three planets within the system can also be seen. - International Gemini Observatory/NSF's NOIRLab/International Gemini Observatory ...

(CNN) — After decades of searching, astronomers have uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star system to Earth. The four ...

Lake Baikal measures 12,239 square miles (31,700 square kilometers), making it Earth's seventh-largest lake.It is not only the world's oldest lake but also the deepest one, at about 1 mile (1.6 ...