The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still ...

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, ...

Satellites have managed to detect faint electromagnetic signals generated by ocean tides, suggesting that space-born sensors ...

At night it can easily be seen from Earth with the naked eye, as it flies nearly 200 miles (or 320 kilometres) above us. Image caption, The International Space Station has hosted more than 230 ...

Scientists from NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), which tracks asteroids and space debris, calculated the motion of 2024 PT5 and determined it was truly a space rock ...

They are usually detected in areas of space where Earth’s magnetic field resembles ... they react back on the electrons, ordering their motion into bunches that become trapped at a particular ...

Earth's magnetic field occasionally bursts into ... whose strength and charge form a gradient in space, the waves end up in ...

Pettit made a name for himself as an astrophotographer after sharing his image 'Lightning Bugs' in 2012 showing beautiful ...

Asteroids of this size impact Earth every few thousand years ... would be enough to change the motion of a celestial object in space. The DART spacecraft successfully changed the way a tiny ...

"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to ...