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

When aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard a decade ago spearheaded a much-hyped flight around the world in a plane powered by ...

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 ...

March was once the first month of the year for ancient people who lived in Earth’s Northern Hemisphere. Our forebears widely regarded this month as a time for new beginnings after the dark ...

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

“The discovery happened while the asteroid was in the Earth’s neighborhood, which made it bright enough to be detected,” Farnocchia said. Automated asteroid warning systems sent out an alarm ...

A large asteroid is headed towards Earth – and could collide with us in just a few years. Known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, the nearly 200-foot space rock could hit just before Christmas of 2032, ...

An object in space that astronomers initially identified as an alarmingly close asteroid headed towards Earth turns out to be a Tesla car that Elon Musk launched in 2018 as part of a publicity ...

It is a component of the solar wind, which does not reach the Earth's surface due to the Earth's magnetic field. However, as the moon has no magnetic field to keep the solar wind out, helium-3 has ...

shooting up out of dazzling turquoise waters. There is nothing else around me, the deep blue sea stretching to the horizon. The archipelago of around 1,500 islands crosses the equator in the heart ...

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 ...