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.

Scientists detected Earth's ambipolar electric field, confirming that it shapes the atmosphere. This key discovery impacts ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction—and plate tectonics also seems to play a key ...

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

The Starliner slammed into the discernible atmosphere 400,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean before descending to a ...

Solar storms could bring faint but visible auroras to parts of the Northern Hemisphere starting late Thursday and continuing ...

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.

During the 1960s, spacecraft traveling above Earth's poles discovered a stream ... NASA has now published its results in a new paper in the journal Nature, and there’s a very good reason why ...