The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from larger bodies called "planetesimals" in ...

ATLAS, which should this weekend become a naked-eye object in the post-sunset sky from the northern hemisphere.

Flip Flop Tens of thousands of years ago, the Earth's magnetic field flipped — and now, scientists have recreated the ...

A comet just discovered last year by observers will whizz past Earth from 44 million miles away but leave a trail of dust and ...

The Shijian-19 satellite carried seeds to orbit, exposing them to the microgravity environment to test plant mutation in ...

A powerful geomagnetic storm illuminated auroras that lit the skies over Earth on Thursday (Oct. 9) after X 2 solar flare ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas made its closest pass to Earth this weekend, but weather permitting, it should be visible to the ...

An explosion of particles arrived at Earth on Thursday, and could lead to visible northern lights in much of the country ...

Unlike the previous flight, when the booster splashed down in the Indian Ocean, it will slow itself down and descend gently back toward the launchpad for a pair of giant mechanical arms to catch it – ...

Though The Lord of the Rings reaches a clear conclusion, Tolkien wrote about the future, implying that Middle-earth becomes ...

It’s one of the most famous dates mentioned in song, but do you really know why Earth Wind & Fire highlighted September 21?

Sources of rare earth elements are frequently associated with volcanoes, dormant or otherwise. Here on Earth, rare-earth ...