A rocky stretch in Western Australia's Pilbara, near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 billion years ago.
The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.2% chance of striking Earth in seven years, but recent updates keep pushing the odds in the wrong direction.
The asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, jumped to the top of NASA's risk chart, with a slim but measurable chance of striking Earth in just seven years.
The European Space Agency is calling the risky "braking" maneuver a "double world first."
Was this extra warming a blip, or a sign that climate change is veering off predictable tracks?
The Rocinante 's crew of reluctant sci-fi heroes may soon be heading to your toy shelf, thanks to a Kickstarter campaign launching March 1.
Some sensational things happened during the first month of 2024, some good, some bad, and some utterly unexpected.
The space agency is having to develop new tools to crack open the canister containing bits from asteroid Bennu.
Crystals formed in the Moon’s cooling magma ocean suggest the Moon is 40 million years older than previously believed.
Heavy rains after years of drought have left the Emilia-Romagna region submerged.
The spaceplane landed this week after spending 276 days in orbit.
Researchers found that the Moon's inner core is about 310 miles wide, which is about 15% the diameter of the Moon.
The space agency needs an additional $250 million this fiscal year to make sure the Martian mission stays on schedule to launch in 2028.
The layer, located 100 miles below the Earth's surface, could help shed light on how the tectonic plates move.
Zine Month starts tomorrow, so now's the time to catch up on all the new and exciting games that released in January.
A research team believes hard-to-destroy asteroids made from loose rubble and dust may be quite common in our solar system.
A web app from Neal.Fun is a choose-your-own-adventure for planetary annihilation
More than 2 million pounds of debris shot into space when the DART spacecraft smashed into Dimorphos in September.
SWOT will collect data on all of our planet's large water bodies every 21 days, offering key insights into climate, sea level rise, and freshwater.
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