Earth briefly hosted a 33-foot object, 2024 PT5, as a mini-moon. Scientists suggest it might be lunar debris from an ancient ...

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the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, or ECMWF, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the lab's Summit supercomputer to better understand atmospheric gravity waves, which ...

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Space.com was on duty all year to bring you every major development in our understanding of the universe's most fascinating ...

As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto’s ...

From exploring the Moon to revealing mysteries of the solar system, space agencies around the world are gearing up for an ...

Somewhere in one of his masterpieces, Gabriel Marquez writes about how “life obliges [people] over and over again to give birth to themselves.” In many ways, politics is the same, since key ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

Bay Area scientists weigh in on the “Kessler Syndrome,” the looming space junk crisis that would disrupt how we use ...

NASA and SpaceX have rescheduled the launch of the IMAP spacecraft to September 2025 to allow more time for preparing its ...

Margaret Harris looks back on a year of fascinating research – and ahead to the International Year of Quantum Science and ...