We tend to think of Earth as familiar and predictable. Same sky, same ground, same oceans. But once you start digging into ...

How much do you know about our planet? Here are the amazing, odd and downright cool Earth facts scientists learned in the ...

Today is Earth Day, a time to think about how to protect the planet that all of us share. Each year on April 22, Earth Day ...

Earth’s distant future has always been framed as a slow fade billions of years from now, but a new generation of models is painting a sharper and more unsettling picture. Instead of a gentle decline, ...

The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

Amid the cold silence of the main belt, a giant rock drifts through space. It has existed for billions of years unchanged, but today, it will be irrevocably broken. Another rocky object hurtles toward ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A Pew Research poll reveals partisan division over U.S. scientific leadership, with Democrats far more concerned ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around Earth. Unlike the Earth's moon, quasi-moons are not gravitationally bound ...

More objects are being launched into space than ever, and most are headed for low Earth orbit. This region of space has become increasingly crowded with launches from SpaceX and others that have ...

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