Perhaps future technology will allow us to study these fleeting visitors more closely. Maybe one day, we’ll even send missions to them to gather samples or test new spacecraft. So, for a few weeks, ...

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This October, when we are supposed to wish each other a happy New Year, the Jewish world finds ... About the Author Dr. Yeshua G. B. Tolle is the Senior Jewish Educator at the Cleveland Hillel ...

The new satellite is temporary: it will leave again at the end of November. And it is very small, at just 10 metres across. But it is one of a very few times that we have seen the Earth acquire a ...

On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "mini-moon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days, but is too small to be visible to amateur skywatchers.

It reminds you that even the sturdiest-seeming features of our world are ephemeral, that in 1,100 years, Earth’s axis will point to a new North Star. In 250,000 years, an undersea volcano will ...

The Sun has started spooky season with a bang, letting loose on October 1 with a colossal flare and coronal mass ejection headed right for Earth. The flare clocked in at X7.1 – the second most ...

Rockström is a research professor in earth system science at University Potsdam, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and co-founder of the Planetary Guardians.

Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting the closest solo star to Earth. The solo star, which is known as Barnard’s star, is a red dwarf which is around 80% smaller than our sun and sits ...

Earth's orbit just got a bit more crowded. A second moon joined the Earth's orbit on Sunday, September 29 th. The ‘mini moon’ is actually a small asteroid, the size of a school bus, that is ...

A comet is visiting Earth for the first time in 80,000 years, and you can see it this fall. Comet C/2023 A3, also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, was first discovered in 2023. Its last trip to our ...

A major geomagnetic storm is barreling its way towards Earth for the second time in five months, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned on Wednesday. On the bright side ...