This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

Researchers have performed a necropsy on a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in the Siberian permafrost.

The changes in ocean chemistry were gradual. The Archaean period lasted 1.5 billion years. This is more than half of Earth’s ...

Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

After taking another peek at the "city-killer" asteroid that once had a small but uncomfortable chance of smashing into our ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

But as a result of being the most ancient pieces of Earth’s lithosphere (containing ... thing is important if we want to understand how a planet has evolved over a long time,” Thorsten Becker ...

While NASA continues to search for life on Mars, a Harvard scientist has claimed it was destroyed in a nuclear war millions ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.