Scientists measured a chorus wave emerging from an unexpected place, and confirmed a key piece of a theory about how these ...

Bethesda's partnership with the band Imagine Dragons adds another layer with a forthcoming real-world space launch, as the ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...

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Telescopes around the world are currently trained on a building-sized asteroid hurtling in Earth’s direction, in an effort to try to understand whether it might hit us. Our current best guess is ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...

Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos’ $10-billion Earth Fund has ended its support for the Science Based Targets initiative, the main verifier of corporate climate targets, the Financial Times ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

President Trump indicated Monday he wants a deal for rare earth elements and other items from Ukraine in exchange for continued military aid in the nation’s war against Russia. “We’re ...

While there’s still a nearly 99 percent chance that 2024 YR4 won’t impact Earth, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said this rare asteroid poses a significant risk — rating it at Torino ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. SpaceX launched two Earth-imaging satellites today (Feb. 4), further building out Maxar ...