The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory — formerly known as the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer — is in its final days. The space ...

It's a dizzyingly busy time for scientists searching for life on distant planets. To date, astronomers have cataloged more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system and are searching the atmospheres ...

After plans to save it failed, NASA's Swift telescope is hurtling back to Earth. Here's how to keep track of it.

New research from the University of Cambridge contradicts a long-standing theory that comets seeded building blocks of life ...

Southern India is in the debris zone, but most of the telescope should burn up and what survives will likely fall into the ...

As today’s oceans lose oxygen, Alaskan rocks trace a similar decline that began millions of years before the end-Triassic mass extinction. Dinosaurs survived the end-Triassic mass extinction 201 ...

Did comets seed life on Earth? It's unlikely, a new study from the University of Cambridge says. It would have been a very ...

The observatory ended science operations in October as atmospheric drag pulled it lower. Its exact reentry time remains uncertain.

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Learn more about the department's name change from geological sciences to the Department of Earth Science, including the effect on degree names and curricula. The Department of Geological Sciences is ...

After more than 21 years watching some of the universe’s most violent events, NASA’s ...