The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...
Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA's search for life beyond Earth. His latest theoretical work investigates the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, one of the ...
What if Uranus and Earth were on a collision course? This video explores the science behind planetary collisions and shows ...
New research from Southwest Research Institute reveals that violent late-stage planetary collisions shaped Earth’s water, ...
Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...
Asteroid 2025 FA22, measuring up to 951 feet across, will make a close approach to Earth early Thursday according to NASA ...
To answer a question or ask a new one, email [email protected] Between 50,000 and 100,000 tonnes of light gases such ...
A massive space rock that once made its way onto a space agency's warning list for potentially dangerous objects is scheduled ...
Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...
The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...
New research warns that if we don't hit an asteroid in exactly the right spot, it could end up on a collision course with ...
Material deep inside Earth — thousands of kilometres down, near the planet’s core — has undergone a mysterious shift. Is ...