NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...

Earth is crossing the threshold of 1.5°C of global warming, according to two major global studies which together suggest the ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

Letters uncovered from Sir Isaac Newton in 1704 could hold the key to what the future of civilisation might look like. The ...

New findings explain the Phoenix cluster's mysterious starburst. Data confirm the cluster is actively cooling and able to generate a huge amount of stellar fuel on its own.

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

Sea-based launches are hitting their stride. That could lead to a lot more space missions with a lot less red tape.

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...