The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but as astronomers make more observations about its trajectory, the odds of ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...

China on Wednesday began public consultation on new regulations designed to protect its domestic rare earth industry, a ...

The threat from space rock 2024 YR4 has surpassed that of Apophis, an asteroid feared by scientists 20 years ago. The danger ...

The chances that an asteroid hits Earth in 2032 are now at their highest since the object was first discovered, according to ...

NASA has increased the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 32, or 3.1%, up from 1 in 42 as reported in ...

When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...

For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a planet within a planet ...

This Google Maps image captured in 2021 revealed a mysterious, triangular dark patch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ...

Animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world—they are its architects. A new study led by Professor Gemma Harvey from ...