Imagine a scenario where the Moon, our constant companion in the night sky, begins a deadly trajectory toward Earth. The ...

China is planning to send a mission to hit an asteroid and change its orbit with a spacecraft to lower the risk of it ...

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...

NASA's DART mission proved we are able to change an asteroid's path by smashing a spacecraft into it, but exactly where we ...

A few nights ago, while taking a walk, I looked up and saw the Moon particularly round, with a few wispy clouds drifting nearby. Suddenly, a silly thought popped into my head—what if the Moon suddenly ...

"The fact that we captured the aurora again demonstrates that our method for predicting aurorae on Mars and capturing them ...

That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

Material deep inside Earth — thousands of kilometres down, near the planet’s core — has undergone a mysterious shift. Is ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

These phenomena are erratic. They interact at every scale and manifest as weather, from clear sunny days to blustery ...

The dwarf planet Pluto and its five known natural satellites (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) may be frigid, but ...