Three years ago, noted filmmaker Adam McKay unleashed his contemporary sci-fi satire Don’t Look Up, in which Earth is ...

Earth's "second moon" won't be sticking around for Thanksgiving, but just as many of us will on Thursday (Nov. 28), it seems ...

With the Taurid meteor shower now hitting the night skies worldwide, look for what could be a celestial treat – you might see ...

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

With the Taurid meteor shower now hitting the night skies worldwide, look for what could be a celestial treat—you might see ...

Research supports the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis, suggesting a comet fragment caused significant climatic changes and ...

For years, we thought a giant comet object smacked into Earth 66 million years ago, signing the collective death certificate of our planet’s dinosaurs. Most believed the murder weapon was either a ...

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The study authors tested the theory by looking at 17 meteor showers with known parent LPCs. Based on each shower's properties, they generated one family of synthetic LPCs for each meteoroid stream.

Rosetta arrived at the comet on 6 August 2014, and the race was immediately on to find a suitable landing site for its lander Philae. The site needed to offer a balance of safety and unique ...

Control theory is a branch of mathematics and engineering, which defines the conditions needed for a system to maintain a controlled output in the face of input variation. Classically developed ...