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

In this evening's southeastern sky, you'll see a bright waxing gibbous moon to the upper right of Saturn. Both of them are at the western edge of Pisces but the ...

When the Bennu capsule returned to Earth scientists expected fragments of ancient rock What they found instead offered new clues about how planets form and how life may have begun in the early solar ...

Bennu co-founder Jonathan Fok demonstrates the company's Birdtender at Edmonton Startup Week. - Photo by Jennifer Friesen, Digital Journal Bennu co-founder Jonathan Fok demonstrates the company's ...

The largest and oldest crater on the moon did not form as we initially suspected, a new study suggests. The findings hint that a specific region of the lunar surface could be more scientifically ...

"My first thought was, 'holy shmolies, that can't be right'. These are just very surprising results." Scientists have found that a sample of the moon brought to Earth in 1972 by Apollo 17 astronauts ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of the Earth in 2029, reversing the Trump administration’s previous plan to ...

On Oct. 1, 2025, the small asteroid known as 2025 TF whizzed past Earth at a distance of only 266 miles (428 kilometers) from our planet — roughly the same altitude as the International Space Station.

From oceans found on distant planets to a detailed map of a fly’s brain, these findings deepened our understanding of the world. In October, a study comprehensively mapped out the brains of fruit ...

In Sunday morning’s pre-dawn sky, you’ll see a very thin waning crescent moon right next to brilliant Venus. The moon will be to the right of Venus at a separation equal to the distance between two ...

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 TF (red crosshairs) came about as close to Earth as the International Space Station on Wednesday (Oct. 1), evading detection until hours later. (Image credit: ESA / Las ...