"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we ...

Colossal, the company looking to return the woolly mammoth to Earth, has created three dire wolves. See what they look like today.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope took a close look at asteroid 2024 YR4, which was once thought to be on a potential ...

Even if no life is found on other planets, smart survey design and careful statistics can still reveal how rare, or common, ...

Eratosthenes became the first person to calculate the Earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy, a feat that stands as a ...

Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenous groups who rely on the land to survive ...

What if humanity's search for life on other planets returns no hits? An international team of researchers, led by ETH ...

The James Webb Space Telescope got a direct look at 2024 YR4, the asteroid once feared to strike Earth, and has determined ...

The world's first FireSat satellite is now orbiting Earth, ready to spot fires when they're just the size of a classroom.

YR4 asteroid has a near-zero chance of striking Earth, but a slim chance of hitting the moon, new research says.

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.