A Southwest Research Institute-led study has proposed a connection between a specific collision in the main asteroid belt and ...

From the vanishing Aral Sea to China's rapidly expanding coastal megacity, satellite imagery reveals just how dramatically ...

Earth’s orbit is growing crowded as satellite launches surge, debris risks rise, and global rules struggle to keep pace.

Humans have long sought to geoengineer the Earth’s environment. Tim Flannery outlines a few of the wildest ideas from the 20th century ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

A three-armed spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth. Northrop Grumman launched Katalyst Space ...

Summer 2026 just got more competitive thanks to Exploding Kittens, a leading game developer and entertainment company reshaping traditional game night, who will launch 10 new games throughout July and ...

US President Donald Trump said US forces carried out an operation to eliminate the leader of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang, which he called "one of the most bloodthirsty terrorist organizations on ...

Informed by science from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and astronomers worldwide, this “documentary that you can walk through” visualizes the cosmos in a 3-D introduction to the universe ...

For more than a century, cosmic rays have remained one of astronomy’s lingering puzzles. These tiny particles move through space carrying extraordinary amounts of energy, arriving from distant corners ...

The meteor's explosion highlights how small space rocks frequently enter Earth's atmosphere, often unnoticed until they become bright fireballs.

(via Kurzgesagt) Earth may seem like the perfect planet for life, but huge parts of our planet are actually hostile deserts of ice, rock, heat or darkness. Even our oceans are mostly barren voids ...