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About 3.4 billion years ago, (according to a new study) when the Late Heavy Bombardment had ended, and the first cells resembling prokaryotes were appearing on Earth, two enormous meteoroids slammed into the ancient, fri...

Rolling sand dunes in the expansive Rub' al Khali desert on the southern Arabian Peninsula are pictured in this image from the Sentinel-2A satellite....

A big advantage to our civilization arising early in the evolution of the universe is our being able to use powerful telescopes like Hubble to trace our lineage from the big bang through the early evolution of galaxies. ...

Few forces in nature are are impressive or frightening as a volcanic eruption. In an instant, from within the rumbling depths of the Earth, hot lava, steam, and even chunks of hot rock are spewed into the air, covering v...

The other day I was puttering around in the house a couple of hours after sunset, and happened to glance out an open window. There, shining over the horizon in the east like a glowering eye, was an intensely bright red-o...

A spacecraft that will fly NASA's first asteroid sample return mission arrived in Florida May 20 to begin final preparations for its September launch. SpaceNews.com

As summer kicks into gear, the top target of star parties and balmy outdoor astronomy gatherings will almost certainly be Saturn, the "Lord of the Rings." You can see the gorgeous planet pair up with the moon on Sunday e...

A Blue Moon will rise Saturday night (May 21), and you can watch it with expert commentary online during a live webcast from the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands.

Three pages with the step-by-step computer procedures that U.S. astronauts followed to land the Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon's surface in 1969 have sold at auction for $175,000.

Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guests: Mike Brown is the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy at CalTech. Konstantin Batygin is Assistant Professor of Planetary Science at CalTech. They’ll...