According to Bob Bonadurer, planetarium director for the Milwaukee Public Museum, space junk is debris from satellites that ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...

Any time you see something falling through the sky, like leaving that trail of light, whether it’s space junk or a meteor ...

Southeast Wisconsin was glowing and buzzing Tuesday night as the skies lit up across the Great Lakes region with fiery ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years—and pinpoints why.

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Weather, climate and hydrometeorology forecasts require accurate surface–atmosphere coupled modeling. This requires the use ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...