Stars scattered across the cosmos sparkle in the appropriately named Chandelier Cluster.

Asteroids are no longer just celestial curiosities on a telescope chart; they are emerging as test beds for a new resource economy that could reshape how humanity powers industry, builds ...

Metallic debris from space that survived its fiery descent through Earth’s atmosphere may have served as jewelry for ancient ...

What can sand ripples on Mars teach scientists about weather patterns on ancient Mars? This is what a recent study published in Geology hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how ...

Timothy Nash, one of the passengers on the flight, had partnered with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa to bring a fossilized Australopithecus sediba clavicle (estimated to be up to ...

Astronomers say a dwarf galaxy, left, merged with the primitive Milky Way galaxy about 12 billion years ago. Credit: NASA / ...

This week is the perfect time to watch the debris from an ancient space catastrophe rain down on Earth’s atmosphere. Two meteor showers, both streams of debris from the same massive object that broke ...

A mysterious layer of space dust that coated Earth millions of years ago could be shrapnel from asteroids that smashed into the moon, according to a new analysis of soil from below the sea floor. In ...