An asteroid as large as five cruise ships is barreling towards Earth at 5.6 miles per second. Civilization thankfully isn’t ...

Earth’s rotation is slowing as melting ice moves across the planet. New research says it’s driven by climate change and is ...

When you think about a large asteroid impact, you might imagine a moment of devastation: a violent collision, a blast of heat ...

View of Earth from a camera on V-2 #13, launched October 24, 1946. White Sands Missile Range/Applied Physics Laboratory On October 24, 1946, not long after the end of World War II and years before ...

Scientists have discovered that seismic waves traveling to Earth’s core and back caused almost all of Japan to shift eastward ...

It’s a bit worrying when a scientific paper begins, “How long will life on Earth survive?” But in this case—a study by Jacob ...

Earth is trapping heat at a record pace, as the planet's heat buildup has doubled in recent decades - driven largely by human ...

Our solar system is a celestial shooting gallery, chock-full of flying projectiles that one day could threaten Earth—so what ...