Siyabulela “Siya” Lethuxolo Xuza is an award-winning South African-born scientist who is the founder and managing director of ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape.

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s hurtling towards Earth at more than 38,500 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to ...

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

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The biggest planet in the Solar System has gone rogue. And now it’s heading straight toward Earth. You have 30 days till this gas giant wipes us all out. What speeds would Jupiter be traveling at?

Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on the gas giant—so thick that no spacecraft has been able to measure exactly ...

Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two planets host very different types of polar vortices, which are huge atmospheric ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...