New study with strong University of Arizona ties finds carbon dioxide has played a dominant role in controlling Earth’s temperature for nearly the last half-billion years.

The brightest comet visible from Earth since 2006, C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, should be making an appearance around ...

Researchers found evidence from astroid craters that Earth may have had a ring, like Saturn, formed 466 million years ago.

The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.

Research on the Nadir crater shows that the asteroid which ended the dinosaur period 66 million years ago was not alone.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.

Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but there are a few with very real chances of making contact. Watch the full episo ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is closely monitoring two asteroids expected to pass Earth on 3 October 2024.

You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the “Circle of Life” song at the ...

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Regardless of their origin, and despite being linked to the last two destructive impacts on Earth — the 1908 Tunguska event and the 2013 Chelyabinsk airburst — it seems that the Taurid Complex does ...

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.