Science fiction is a particularly bountiful genre for the introduction of new words, in large part because authors come up with unique and otherworldly terms to describe their sci-fi worlds. Here are ...

Harvard professor Avi Loeb recently reacted to Elon Musk’s remarks about the unusual nickel-to-iron ratio displayed in the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, made in an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience ...

Debris from Comet Encke creates two annual meteor showers, but it might also pose a small risk to Earth. Scientists are ...

I/ATLAS, a new visitor in our solar system, has become a hot topic of discussion. SpaceX head, Elon Musk recently shared his thoughts about it on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

DeGrasse Tyson, the world-renowned astrophysicist, spoke in front of 4,000 people at a summit in Erie in Oct. 29.

From the balcony of his family’s downtown London, Ontario apartment, five-year-old Siddharth Patel would spend nights gazing ...

Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have unearthed a ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

Scientists out of the Pan-STARRs observatory in Hawaii discovered the new quasi-moon on Aug. 29, according to CNN and ABC ...

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As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.