The TRAPPIST-1 system, fascinating with its seven Earth-sized rocky planets, three of which are located in the habitable zone ...

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...

The Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) has released a detailed global map of fine particulate pollution, ...

"Exploring the clouds, say by balloon, can be done with technology that's ready today," Byrne told Space.com. "We could ...

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

Some of us remember the first Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, 1970. We pulled old bedsprings and tires out of local rivers and urged a ban on phosphates that fueled weed growth in streams and ...

A total lunar eclipse will tint the Moon red-orange on the night of March 13 or early in the morning of March 14, depending ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the ...

Most of us learned about the law of conservation of matter and energy in a science class in the elementary grades. It states that matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed but can be ...

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth.

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...