The Geminids — the year's best, last and least talked about multicolored meteor shower — has started and could see up to 150 ...

Humanity is better prepared than ever before to prevent a large asteroid from crashing into Earth, but there's more work, and ...

The team's hypothesis calls for a temporary ring around Earth, which would explain why impacts were constrained to a ...

Performing an analysis using well-accepted atmospheric and geological data, a research team found that the cumulative GHG emissions in the atmosphere are comparable to the material ejected by the ...

Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying reptile - with a wing span of about 7 feet (2 meters), a bony crest on front of its snout and a ...

Research supports the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis, suggesting a comet fragment caused significant climatic changes and ...

A “killer asteroid,” large enough to decimate Baltimore and the surrounding areas, may be heading toward Earth at this very ...

Since July 25, 1952, Puerto Rico became a Commonwealth of the United States, but that is not the most important date in ...

For perspective, at its maximum estimated size of 460 meters, 2023 WK3 dwarfs India’s iconic Qutub Minar, which stands at 73 meters tall. The asteroid is over six times taller than this UNESCO World ...