For the first time, humanity has proved it can deliberately shove a small world off course. NASA’s Double Asteroid ...

Earth is facing two major natural threats: one from deep space and one from beneath our feet. In this playlist, we look at ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet," study lead Miki Nakajima, an associate professor in the ...

The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

While Donald Trump fixates on Greenland, his muted response to China’s moves around Taiwan is raising alarms about deterrence ...

When large satellites crash to Earth, we have so far been largely blind to their trajectory. This could change thanks to technology from earthquake research.

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered ...

Analog missions are designed to simulate the crew’s experience in a given mission plan. In some cases, they simulate surface operations on the Moon or Mars for up to a year. Others might replicate the ...

There are a lot of things we consider 'Oscar-worthy' that may not have been on your radar. FOR MOVIE FANS, the morning when ...

Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least four million premature deaths from ...