Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

Billions of years ago a planet called Theia collided with Earth in a massive impact. This film explores how the crash shaped ...

Imagine if a magnitude 15 earthquake rocked the planet! First off, buildings would be like Jenga blocks in the hands of a giant, just crumbling all over the place. Tsunamis would be hitting coastal ...

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

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

We may one day be able to forecast powerful solar storms capable of devastating Earth’s electronics more than half a day in advance, following a successful test of the approach using the Solar Orbiter ...

These meteors and asteroids hit Earth. In 2016, a huge fireball lit up the Florida night sky and shocked everyone who saw it. In 2015, a driver in Thailand captured an impressive meteor on a dashboard ...

If you're unfamiliar with the story of the Titanic, the infamous "unsinkable" ocean liner that, well, sank in 1912, you either really hate disaster stories, ships, or movies, or you're like Captain ...

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...

The aliens just touched down on Earth, and you've been tasked with showing them one of these three one-hit wonders; which one will you choose?

Two plane-sized asteroids will rocket past Earth today at speeds of up to 28,000 mph, according to Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The two asteroids, 2025 QB5 and 2025 QK3, will pass within 2.81 ...