Disturbances in the system that moves water around the world place more than half of global food production at risk ...

How do they differ from the ocean? A geophysicist breaks it down for us. An asteroid is going to circle our planet for two months this autumn before going on its way. A facility near the Icelandic ...

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 ...

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 ...

View of the moon setting over Earth, taken by the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Asteroids slip quietly by our planet all the time. Most of these small objects ...

Scientists aren’t exactly sure whether this asteroid is just a piece of space rock or possibly a chunk of the Moon that was ...

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 ...

The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the ... who looks for microlensing events caused by free-floating stellar-mass black holes in the Milky Way. The discovery is ...

In a new study, the authors argue that his localized impact pattern was produced after a large asteroid had a close encounter with Earth. Stretched by the planet's gravity, the asteroid broke ...

NASA has created a contingency plan to protect Earth from large asteroids, which includes the use of nuclear explosions as a ...

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 ...