NASA’s DART mission wasn’t designed to study—it was designed to hit. A 570 kg spacecraft, no bigger than a fridge, ...

Scientists at the Field Museum can now get a glimpse of 4.5 billion years into the past. This is because the museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of a pristine asteroid. The little black ...

NASA refined asteroid 2024 YR4's path, raising chances of a lunar impact in 2032. The asteroid no longer poses a significant threat to Earth, experts confirmed after new observations. NASA will ...

A 4.3 per cent of impact still counts as a 95.7 per cent chance that it will miss the Moon. So, with it having no chance of hitting Earth on that date, 2024 YR4 could simply slip through lunar orbit ...

Planetary boundaries outline how far past pre-industrial conditions Earth can get before anthropogenic activity has ...

A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to survive a mass extinction, your best bet might be to carve out a truly unique ...

Local officials are warning more than half a million Iowans in the state's capital city and suburbs that near-record level of ...