Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

Earth' exoplanet, HD 20794 d, located just 20 light-years away, which could potentially host life. It resides in the ...

Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core. Until now the ... Feb. 10, 2025 — Beryllium-10, a rare radioactive ...

As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

Sharing his experience as Pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission, Hoburg said, “We built up the International Space Station ...

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

Multinational Research Project Shows How Life on Earth Can Be Measured from Space Feb. 6, 2025 — Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth.

Sea-based launches are hitting their stride. That could lead to a lot more space missions with a lot less red tape.

In 2020, strict rules were put in place to slash cargo-ship emissions. Five years on, it appears to have been less than ...

Researchers have now revisited the study to see if the sudden break in human activity on Earth led to the cooling down of the Moon in April and May of 2020.

It was initially believed the asteroid, first detected on December 27, had about a 1 percent chance of colliding with Earth, ...