Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause ...
New photos of comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS appear to show a faint "anti-tail" pointing away in the wrong direction. The puzzling ...
The success of SpaceX’s massive new space vehicle promises a host of new projects, including the colonisation of Mars ...
The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...
There aren’t as many potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near Earth as previously thought, according to a new study.
Geography textbooks describe the Earth's mantle beneath its plates as a well-mixed viscous rock that moves along with those ...
The Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet was first discovered by observers at China’s Tsuchinshan Observatory and an ATLAS telescope in ...
As you may recall from a recent column, the final fate of Earth depends on the last stages of the sun’s life, its red-giant ...
ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid ...
Just a few smashups in the asteroid belt may account for 70 percent of Earth’s meteorites, limiting what’s known about our solar system’s history.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 23 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, ...
Meet NASA’s NEO Surveyor, the space telescope identifying hazardous asteroids and comets within 48 million kilometres of ...