How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don’t yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

However, the mechanism that has been thought to explain how that stardust disperses has now been shown to be flawed, and the team that made the discovery doesn’t have a coherent alternative to offer ...

When interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on December 19, 2025, it did not become a spectacular object in the night ...

The earlier two were ‘Oumuamua, discovered in 2017, and 2I/Borisov, found in 2019. For scientists, 3I/ATLAS is important because it gives a rare chance to study material from another star system ...

According to a NASA study, Saturn's moon Titan may be the most fantastically large slushie of all time. Based on a reexamination of data from the Cassini probe collected in 2012, the moon's ...

Last month, European regulators grounded thousands of Airbus jetliners, citing an unusual reason: solar radiation. The planes' electronics, the manufacturer said, were vulnerable to the charged ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact configuration and later underwent a violent reshuffling that scattered them to ...

European regulators issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive grounding specific Airbus A319, A320, and A321 aircraft after an "uncommanded and limited pitch down" incident on a JetBlue flight, ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.

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Conspiracy theories have raged about 3I/ATLAS being an unnatural object. But the alien question, while fun, generates misinformation and distracts from the science. When you purchase through links on ...