An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.

A joint European-Chinese spacecraft is set to blast off Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant ...

Don’t look up! But if you do, you might be able to see a bus-sized asteroid passing Earth. The newly discovered space rock is ...

NASA launched four astronauts on a pioneering journey around the moon—the Artemis II mission. Follow our coverage here. Just 14 days ago, amid the mundanity of East Coast commutes and West Coast alarm ...

As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Planet Earth is spinning a little faster today — resulting in one of the shortest days of the year. But the change will be so minuscule you won’t even notice. We’re talking even less time than the ...

The recently spotted asteroid 2025 PN7 appears to be the source of the rumor mill about Earth's supposed second moon. Earth has several quasi-moons that get their name due to the fact that they ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift, ...

The Earth’s climate is a dynamic entity, continuously evolving over billions of years with alternating periods of extreme heat and cold. Recent scientific studies indicate that the Earth is subtly ...

The results of the planet’s first annual physical—a complete health check—are in, and they are alarming. We are deep into the yellow danger zone and moving rapidly towards the red high-risk zone, ...

The asteroid was discovered on May 10 by astronomers at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter in Arizona. It is rare for an object of ...