The Smithsonian partners with NASA to present the Earth Information Center, a larger-than-life display that visualizes ...

More than two million Floridians are still without power after Hurricane Milton tore through the state. The storm has been ...

And the science is clear: the patient, our home planet earth, is in critical condition. If we continue on this path, human health and wellbeing, economic prosperity, social stability, and equality ...

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving ...

"Detecting an exomoon would be quite extraordinary, and because of Io, we know that a volcanic exomoon is possible." ...

Earth will be getting a second moon in the form of Asteroid 2024 PT5, which will start orbiting our planet. During this interstellar layover, the space rock will likely become a “temporary mini ...

On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "minimoon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days, but is too small to be visible to amateur skywatchers.

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan In six billion years the sun ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store for Earth billions of years from now ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - NASA is set to launch a spacecraft to Jupiter's moon Europa, considered one of our solar ...

Newly discovered by astronomers publishing for the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, Barnard b orbits the closest solo star ...