Apophis 2029 asteroid flyby brings a rare close pass, private missions, and a major shift in planetary defense readiness.

The San Diego Padres have gone a little cold over the last week, going 2-4 over the last six games. After a hot stretch, the Padres have started to fall back down to earth a little, with their most ...

Crabs’ famous sideways walk may trace back to a single evolutionary moment 200 million years ago. Researchers found that most ...

NASA is preparing to launch a mission designed to provide a unique, inside-out view of the ring current. Called STORIE (Storm ...

Warming soils may be unlocking carbon once considered permanent, releasing additional CO 2 into the atmosphere. This subtle ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

Subduction zones can look permanent on a map. They run for hundreds or thousands of miles, haul oceanic crust into the mantle ...

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin is in the running to develop a lunar lander, as is Elon Musk’s SpaceX, with an approach using its ...

There are countless objects spinning around in space, but this is an astronomical first! Dan Smith shows how one small comet ...

Earth's bizarre facts, from a slowing rotation and hidden oceans to boiling rivers and ancient water, showing our planet is ...

It has come to our attention that a handful of people out there are a little puzzled about why flying against Earth’s ...

A rare dataset collected by instruments at the point where Antarctica's largest ice shelf begins to float reveals ocean ...