NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft specifically designed to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth, is on track for a 2027 ...
Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...
New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...
Extracting resources from the Earth always comes with costs. As we race toward a cleaner, greener future, there is a risk of ...
So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...
To save ourselves from a killer asteroid, first we have to find it. A spacecraft now under construction at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in may be our best hope. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor is a ...
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...
A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...