For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

A re-examination of the 2015 Bonin Islands earthquake disproved earlier claims of a record-breaking deep aftershock in the ...

With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, "the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own ...

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...

Hatem Ben Arfa appears to have dropped off the face of the earth. It is approaching three ... The veteran has found a second love - padel - and even climbed to 821st place in the French Tennis ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

The Chicxulub asteroid, for example, pushed the Earth into the Cenozoic Era ... (one Sverdrup equals one million cubic meters per second). New research by an international team of scientists ...

So far, 2024 PT5 is just the second object in an Earth-like orbit of purported lunar origin. Astronomers found asteroid 469219 Kamo’oalewa in 2016, which was also likely ejected from the lunar ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...