NASA astronaut Don Pettit has captured another remarkable shot, this one showing the Betsiboka River estuary in ...

Although they don't impact the surface directly, historical evidence and simulations suggest airbursts can pack a punch.

A solar explosion called a coronal mass ejection is poised to graze Earth on Friday or Saturday (Jan. 24 or Jan. 25), potentially triggering colorful auroras over the northern U.S.

Every day, about 48.5 tonnes of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Meteorites that fall into the ocean are never recovered. But ...

It is thus only fitting for a goddess to be named for none other than the door hinge: Cardea. And now, thanks to Clay ...

An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to include the protection of Earth's orbit in the U.N.

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using ...

Scientists have detected cosmic waves that sound like chirping birds in an unexpected place. These bursts of plasma, called ...

Just as we are reckoning with how to conserve ecosystems on Earth for future living creatures, we must think of space as an ...

Swarm satellites detect faint ocean magnetic signals, revealing magma distribution and climate change insights.

Making silicon wafers in space could enable building ultra-pure silicon wafers, but at a prohibitively high cost.