Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...
An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.
Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.
The gigantic coronal hole is blasting high-speed solar wind toward Earth, potentially igniting vibrant auroras and minor ...
The exoplanet HD 20794d swoops in and out of its habitable zone every few hundred days, making for an extreme climate.
From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi ...
Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...
A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of striking Earth in 2032. NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday ...
A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years—and pinpoints why.
This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...
Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...
Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...