Situation is significant enough to warrant global planetary defence community's attention. Astronomers plan to use James Webb ...

A newly discovered asteroid has quickly shot to the top of NASA’s risk list. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has about a 2.1 ...

when the sun will shine directly down on the equator. Our four seasons are the by-product of the 23.5 degree tilt of the Earth's axis and during the course of a year we see the sun cycle between ...

21, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b ... of the formation of the Moon and water on Earth. The prevailing theory was that the ...

This video identifies the seven continents and five oceans of the Earth, and also where the Equator, Northern and Southern Hemispheres and the North and South Poles are located on the planet.

A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have ...

They originate in space, high above a planet’s equator ... in areas of space where Earth’s magnetic field resembles that of a giant bar magnet (a dipole), out to around 51,000 km above ...

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The asteroid 2024 YR4, which is expected to pass Earth in 2032, was recently calculated to have a 1-out-of-43 chance of striking our planet. By contrast, last week 2024 YR4 had only a 1-out-of-83 ...

even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to new research. Astronomers estimate that Bennu has a 1 in 2,700 chance of affecting Earth in ...

But how good is your knowledge of Earth's inner structure? Find out by taking this quiz. If you need a hint, hit the yellow button. Good luck! Sascha is a U.K.-based staff writer at Live Science.