That may be about to change: NASA is preparing a brand new mission that will travel 1 million miles away from Earth in order to map the boundaries of the heliosphere, offering clues to scientists ...

With advance warning, however, steps can be taken to reduce the risks. If an electrical grid is running near capacity, for ...

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 ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

Sooner or later, a sizable asteroid could impact a populated area on Earth. How is the US, and the world, preparing?

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

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“I love Venus,” she says. “It’s Earth’s evil twin.” The two planets are about the same size, but the differences are stark.

Did a missile slam into a meteor over China? China has been racing ahead in the field of space, and is also preparing its ...

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

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