There are signs deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that an exploding star once sent cosmic rays blasting out towards Earth, and ...

Earth is far from a static place. That's true in the present, but it's even more apparent when you look to the past, as Earth ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

Mercury is tiny, barely bigger than the Moon. Its metallic core makes up 70% of the planet’s mass, vastly exceeding Earth’s ...

NASA has warned that more solar storms could soon hit Earth, and a new study has found that it could have dire consequences ...

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...

With no atmosphere to slow it down, asteroid 2024 YR4 could carve a 1-km-wide crater—the largest fresh lunar scar in 5,000 ...

The study emphasises that many of these asteroids are large enough, at least 140 metres wide, to be classified as ‘city ...

A building-sized asteroid, 2025 FA22, is set to pass by Earth on September 18, 2025, at a distance of 523,000 miles.

Apophis will zoom safely past the Earth closer than the orbits of geosynchronous satellites on April 13, 2029. As well as the ...

NASA’s Carruthers mission will capture the first full images of Earth’s exosphere, helping protect astronauts and guide the search for life.

Detecting an asteroid when it was still about to hit Earth is difficult enough; finding it once it has already impacted our ...