The potential risks from a major wildfire have been well known for years, but there was little appetite to solve those ...
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...
The world's space agencies are keeping close watch on an asteroid heading our way, because there's currently a 1 in 83 chance ...
Tokyo (CNN) — Japanese authorities have asked hundreds of residents near Tokyo to evacuate as a sinkhole at an intersection grew to more than 40 meters wide, hampering rescuers racing to reach an ...
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...
Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...