The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

On Wednesday, an unprecedented memo from the International Asteroid Warning Network reached the United Nations Office for ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super-Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of extraterrestrial beings, per a cosmic study published in the ...

30, 2025 — Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced together ... populated the world's oceans for around 450 million years, but more than a third of the species living today ...

A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years—and pinpoints why.

Researchers said the planet has a mass six times greater than our Earth's and orbits in a "habitable zone" of a star similar to the sun. While located 20 light-years away, scientists believe the ...

We’ll be able to follow the asteroid as it recedes from Earth for another couple of months, by which time we’ll have a better idea of exactly where it will be on that fateful day in December 2032 ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

1. The colossal squid is the planet’s largest squid, mollusc, and invertebrate (by mass) -- yet it isn’t without its own ...

Even so, the object — called asteroid 2024 YR4 — is Earth's biggest known impact threat in 20 years and it's already triggered international planetary-defense planning. What's the threat level?

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.