The star’s looming death will dramatically reshape the inner solar system, engulfing Mercury and Venus in a fiery sphere. The ...

An asteroid as large as five cruise ships is barreling towards Earth at 5.6 miles per second. Civilization thankfully isn’t ...

Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory, astronomers have taken a closer look at a nearby exoplanet and ...

A new study updates the age of Earth's oldest known meteorite impact crater, the North Pole Dome crater, which scientists ...

Earth’s rotation is slowing as melting ice moves across the planet. New research says it’s driven by climate change and is ...

Around 7:15 am on June 30 in 1908, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II, an object from space entered Earth's atmosphere over ...

Vegetarians need not worry yet—plants will be on Earth for a long time to come. But not forever. The sun will ultimately ...

Our solar system is a celestial shooting gallery, chock-full of flying projectiles that one day could threaten Earth—so what ...

The rock is hurtling through our cosmic neighborhood at a zippy 8,768 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Scientists have discovered that seismic waves traveling to Earth’s core and back caused almost all of Japan to shift eastward ...