Stargazers in parts of the U.S. have a fleeting opportunity this month to catch a rare celestial phenomena—a "parade" of ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics ...

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for the development of robotic systems, including spacecraft for ...

Space-lovers can look forward to a rare alignment of seven planets next week as a planetary parade that will be visible ...

The Webb telescope is well-suited to identify asteroid 2024 YR4's size. Webb views a type of light we can't see with the ...

Black holes have been fascinating subjects of study, not just because they are cosmic vacuum cleaners, but also as engines of ...

Two gargantuan canyons on the moon were carved by a hailstorm of rocks — and that’s good news for future lunar astronauts.

PhD student Eric Saboya gives an overview of what life is like studying in the Space and Atmospheric Physics group. Each year we offer a number of opportunities to study for a PhD under the ...

An asteroid between about 130 and 300 ft. (40 and 90 meters) in diameter has been given a 2.3% chance of it hitting Earth on ...

4 to Feb. 6, but will no longer meet. "We are forced, therefore, to cancel MExAG 2025," the Mercury committee's chair Carolyn Ernst, a planetary scientist with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics ...

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...