This Sunday, an asteroid larger than Manhattan – large enough it could end civilization, or at least wreck a country – is ...

Last year was the planet’s hottest in recorded history, NASA announced, marking two years in a row that global temperatures ...

The circumgalactic medium, a vast gaseous halo surrounding galaxies, could be crucial to the evolution of star-forming ...

The new record comes after 15 consecutive months (June 2023 through August 2024) of monthly temperature records.

Plants store 786 km³ water and cycle it back to the atmosphere in 5–18 days. New study reveals their critical role in the ...

There were significantly more X-class solar flares in 2024 than any other year for at least three decades. The arrival of ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...

The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost." ...

G3 (ATLAS) should be visible from the southern hemisphere, and possibly also the northern hemisphere, over the next few days ...

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — who famously test-flew a Boeing Starliner spaceship to the International Space Station, and who have been stuck on board since their arrival June ...

SpaceX is preparing for the seventh flight test of the Starship vehicle on Monday afternoon from Starbase in Boca Chica near Brownsville, Texas.

The island formed in early 2023, when a mud volcano in the Caspian Sea’s Kumani Bank, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) off the ...