A recently discovered asteroid will soon become a quasi-satellite of Earth as it loops around our planet over the next two ...

Here’s what to know about our new, temporary celestial neighbor. Earth has a large gravitational pull. So it’s not uncommon ...

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...

Some of the most dramatic climate events in history are the Snowball Earth episodes, which occurred hundreds of millions of ...

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in ...

2024 PT5 will be a temporary visitor, arriving in September and flying off again in November.

Scientists detected Earth's ambipolar electric field, confirming that it shapes the atmosphere. This key discovery impacts ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction—and plate tectonics also seems to play a key ...

A timeline of 485 million years of Earth’s surface temperatures shows ancient greenhouse conditions were hotter than scientists thought.

The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

Earth is about to get a temporary companion as an asteroid known as "2024 PT5" will become a "mini-moon" starting on 29. Discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in South Africa ...

Solar storms could bring faint but visible auroras to parts of the Northern Hemisphere starting late Thursday and continuing ...