Here’s what to know about our new, temporary celestial neighbor. Earth has a large gravitational pull. So it’s not uncommon ...

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in ...

A recently discovered asteroid will soon become a quasi-satellite of Earth as it loops around our planet over the next two months.

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are "Snowball Earth" events that happened hundreds of ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...

A giant moon with a chunk taken out of it was visible in the skies on Tuesday night. Here are some of the best shots in case ...

A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

Any night now, the astrophysicists tell us, a new star will appear in the night sky over Philly and the rest of the world — ...