While NASA says the chances of a collision with Earth are “extremely low,” the probability has been increasing since the space rock was discovered weeks ago.

Data collected from a once-defunct NASA satellite show that Earth grew two extra radiation belts following a supercharged ...

NASA has announced an asteroid that is heading this way, has a greater chance of hitting the Earth than initially thought.

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The planet has been shattering heat records for the past two years. That was expected to ease in January—and the fact that it didn't has climate researchers worried.

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An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of the exoplanet HD 20794 d, which could potentially support ...

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The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...