Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or ...

"The United Nations declaration of June 30 as Asteroid Day is a very important milestone for us," Asteroid Day co-founder ...

The cloud is causing elevated particle pollution in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina, and could reach the Triad this weekend depending on weather systems.

Read What are asteroids?Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun just like planets do. In fact, sometimes asteroids are ...

I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 ...

This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...

Scientists in Germany have collected dust from Qatar, Morocco and Thailand to analyze the impact on the performance of uncoated solar glass and uncoated PV mini-modules. Their analysis has shown ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken another look at the potential "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 and found its chances of hitting the moon in December 2032 have increased to 4.3%.

Planet-forming disks around young stars lose gas more rapidly than dust, leading to a changing gas-to-dust mass ratio as disks age. Gas disperses quickly in early stages, while dust persists longer.

An enormous asteroid—big enough to leave a six-mile-wide crater and darken the world with dust if it hit Earth—will harmlessly zip by our planet on April 29. The object, called 1998 OR2, is at ...

Despite the slightly higher chance of impact, the risks from Bennu shouldn’t keep anyone awake at night. There’s more than a 99.9 percent chance that Bennu will not hit Earth in the next three ...