A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

With eight billion people, we use a lot of the Earth's resources in ways that are likely unsustainable. Klaus Hubacek, ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

Since the 1980s, the leading theory suggested that the Moon formed from a collision between Earth and the protoplanet Theia ...

Although the Moon is the closest neighbour to our planet, scientists have still not been able to determine its origin. Since ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

The satellite company NanoAvionics released images online showing the damage to its MP42 satellite, launched in 2022 and ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...

From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to see if you could avoid a catastrophic impact ...

"Whether this impact was from a micrometeoroid or a piece of space debris, the collision highlights the need for responsible ...