The dark UV ovals were first detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope during the late 1990s at the north and south poles.

Southwest Research Institute, supported by NASA’s Habitable Worlds program, is repurposing corrosion modeling software to ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument uses a telescope in Tucson, Arizona, to create a map of the universe's ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 provided the only close-up look at Uranus. Nearly 40 years later, scientists are looking back at this data and finding out the visit happened during a strange space ...

The asteroid Apophis, nicknamed the "God of Chaos," is set for a near-Earth flyby on November 13, passing within 19,000 miles of our planet. While not posing an immediate threat, Apophis's size and ...

Radar images of Apophis obtained during its 2021 flyby. (NASA/JPL-Caltech and NSF/AUI/GBO) 99942 Apophis is a cheeky one. Upon its discovery in 2004, scientists calculated the the 335-meter ...

To find out, they conducted modeling of the 2029 99942 Apophis flyby of Earth. We don't really know what shape the asteroid has, but what data we have obtained suggest that it is bi-lobed ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not mean Earth is not a hazard to it. When asteroid 99942 Apophis flies closely ...

Meteoroid trails may reveal hazardous comets near Earth early on. Long-period comets could pose impact risks; meteoroid trails offer clues. New technique could provide years of warning for comet ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is about to make its final flyby of Venus, a crucial maneuver that will slingshot it closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before. This daring mission aims to unlock the ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors and landslides that totally change the asteroid's surface. Landslides ...

It will pass within 233 miles (376 km) of the planet's surface. The US space agency said the flyby will adjust the spacecraft's trajectory into its final orbital configuration, bringing it to ...