A building-sized asteroid had a 1-in-32 chance of hitting Earth at its peak, but astronomers soon found there was zero chance ...

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

An international research team may have found an explanation for seismic anomalies, the noticeable deviations in the behavior ...

An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately ...

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through a solid iron lattice. This unusual behavior makes the core soft, matching ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...

Millions of Americans may still believe warming exists, but far fewer view it as an imminent existential threat.

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...

Forget a round Earth—what if our planet was a perfect cube? In this SpaceBalls episode, we explore one of the most mind-bending "what if" scenarios in science. The results are crazier than you think!

The recently spotted asteroid 2025 PN7 appears to be the source of the rumor mill about Earth's supposed second moon. Earth has several quasi-moons that get their name due to the fact that they ...

No, Earth will not have "two moons until 2083," but asteroid 2025 PN7 has joined Earth's orbital path, with the tiny fleet of space rocks set to trail Earth's orbit until 2083 before the sun pulls it ...