CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the ...

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...

Shortly after its discovery, it was added to NASA’s Sentry risk list on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024, a database that tracks ...

This is the background to the discovery of super-Earth HD 20794 d by an international team including the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the NCCR PlanetS. '"Are we alone in the universe?"' ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3%, but astronomers ...

A team of scientists studied the core's behavior to understand why its rotation slowed down relative to Earth's in 2010, and discovered new evidence of the mysterious, shapeshifting nature of the ...

Researchers at the University of Southern California say they’ve unraveled the mystery of why Earth’s inner core has been slowing, gradually altering the length of a ...

“I’ve discovered — I’ve led a team that has ... organism that was behaving unlike any life form known on Earth. The creature came from the mud of Mono Lake, a body of water near Yosemite ...

Earth and Mars contain significantly fewer MVEs ... system were unexpectedly rich in these elements," said Grewal. "This discovery reshapes our understanding of how planets acquired their ...