Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts notes while counterintuitive, the odds of impact go up before they drop to zero.

Experts emphasize that the cosmic microwave background is shaped by everything it encounters on its journey, including ...

Scientists have detected the highest-energy ghost particle neutrino ever, but did it come from a supermassive black hole ...

The moon reached its peak brightness at 8:53 a.m. EST (1353 GMT) on Feb. 12, but local moonrise and moonset times will depend ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

Einstein rings help scientists study dark matter and cosmic expansion. Euclid will find thousands more lenses to map the ...

Gravitational lensing occurs when the gravity of a massive object, like a galaxy, warps the fabric of spacetime, bending the light from a more distant background object.

A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) presents a methodology to test the ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the ...