Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

Astronomers believe they’ve discovered another so-called quasi-moon of Earth, though it’s likely been circling undetected in near space for decades. Dubbed 2025 PN7, this mini moon is actually an ...

The University at Albany is starting new majors related to climate change, but students won't just study science. Economics, ...

Recently, the results of a 250-day experiment to refine a particular motion of our planet were published in the journal ...

A massive asteroid, measuring 520 feet wide, is speeding through space at 24,127 miles per hour. Scientists are closely ...

This theory was the brainchild of Francis Crick (yes, the one who helped identify DNA) and Leslie Orgel, the originator of ...

Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have ...

The booming space industry has filled the skies with rockets and satellites, but this rapid expansion comes with a hidden danger: slowing the recovery of the ozone layer. Rocket launches and burning ...

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to ...

A sudden halt to Earth's rotation, though improbable, would trigger catastrophic events. Inertia would cause widespread ...

Earth's rotation is randomly speeding up, and nobody is quite sure why. These speedups, which have occurred several times over the last few years, haven't had any effect on daily life, but they also ...