A collaborative team of scientists has discovered that life on Earth over three billion years ago relied on the metal ...

A scorching, airless world just 48 light-years away is offering scientists a rare glimpse into the geology of distant planets ...

This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance ...

A major solar storm, or another disruption, could overwhelm Earth's satellite system and trigger catastrophic collisions ...

Reid Wiseman tells CBS how fellow astronaut Christina Koch pulled out a bag of Peanut M&M's as they waited to be picked up ...

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 ...

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 ...

2024 PT5, Earth’s newest mini-moon, is expected to go into orbit of Earth for a couple of months from Sept. 29, 2024. Update, Oct. 9, 2024: A link to a map of asteroid 2024 PT5’s orbit around the sun ...

A partial eclipse of the full Harvest moon is seen over downtown San Diego from Humphreys Concerts By the Bay on September 17, 2024 in San Diego, California. Reporter Starting next week, the moon, ...

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, ...

Nature in the Neighborhood On Dec. 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders took a photo that photographer Galen Rowell ...