Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth impact has now been ruled out, the asteroid's story continues.

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Keeping Earth safe from asteroids isn’t just spotting them – it’s also helping people understand what a high-impact probability with Earth means.

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, debris from the nuclear bomb-like impact could trigger a "spectacular ...

Four different studies conducted on the lunar samples brought back by the Chang'e-6 mission from the far side reveal some of ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

The red, brown and gray hunk is about 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars found on Earth and represents nearly 7% ...

The first Space Shuttle was originally going to be named Constitution. US President Gerald Ford agreed to rename it ...

For 37 years in a searing California desert, runners from across the globe have embarked on a 135-mile race through one of ...

For decades, Hollywood kept trying—and failing—to adapt The Sandman into a blockbuster film. But why did every attempt flop ...

We know Marvel’s multiverse has made it onto the screen, having seen it in Doctor Strange, What If…?, and Deadpool & ...