Last time a stray planetoid the size of Mars smashed into Earth, it scattered our planet's young crust into space, where ...

Earth has never stayed the same for long. In 250 million years, drifting continents will collide into a single massive landform. This shift will trap heat, alter oceans, and push temperatures beyond ...

Earth is experiencing a severe solar radiation storm, the strongest in two decades. This event is disrupting satellite ...

A rare and intense energy flare from the sun has reached our planet, leading to what scientists say is the most violent solar ...

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their ...

A geomagnetic storm made the northern lights — the aurora borealis — visible as far south as Alabama and New Mexico Jan. 19.

A blistering coronal mass ejection from the Sun raced to Earth in just 25 hours, triggering a severe G4 geomagnetic storm and ...

As well as behavioural and technical issues, firms must also solve a variety of organisational problems to make AI work for ...

What actually happens to a spacecraft during its fiery last moments? That's the key question for the European Space Agency's Draco mission, planned for 2027.