A "bus-sized" asteroid being tracked by NASA will zoom safely past the Earth on Wednesday as both celestial objects make a ...

In this choose-your-own-adventure game, it's up to you to protect the planet. From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, find out ...

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists consider the chance extremely small.

Scientists have confirmed that one of Earth's most remarkable living beings—a massive forest of quaking aspen trees in Utah ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

After reaching solar maximum in Solar Cycle 25, the Sun continues producing multiple solar flares, with some Earth-directed ...

Blind spiders and whip scorpions, the future of climate change, photosynthesis in the dark – here's what the deepest places ...

Regardless of the circumstances, imagine that people have gone extinct. Suddenly the geologically brief moment of human ...

Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu parachuted back to Earth after their six-month stay in the country’s Tiangong space ...