A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million ...
On August 28, 2025, researchers aimed their equipment towards an area of sky where they expected to find the asteroid 1998 ...
Seen from afar, Earth is looking steadily darker. The amount of sunshine reflected is known as the albedo. This is going down ...
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If an asteroid was ever threatening Earth, the best way to stop it might be with a nuclear explosion, according to a new ...
Scientists discover the first confirmed atmosphere in habitable zone outside our solar system on LHS 1140b ...
A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. In a paper ...
Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly ...
A NASA study has reclassified a celestial body previously thought to be an asteroid. This object, known as 1998 SH2, is now ...