2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...

A polar day is when the sun does not set and stays above the horizon for an extended period, while a polar night is when the ...

Many climate experts see its deserts as a place to build the green-energy future. For two local activists, the price is too ...

Skywatchers are set to be dazzled by the northern lights over the coming hours, as a geomagnetic storm builds.

A University of Derby study led by Dr. Phethean proposes Earth has six continents, not seven. Using advanced geological ...

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of ...

Trump’s fascination with Greenland is not a new idea. For more than a thousand years, colonial aspirations have shaped the ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has captured another remarkable shot, this one showing the Betsiboka River estuary in ...

SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from California's central coast today (Jan. 24). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink craft is scheduled to lift off from ...

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling techniques.

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.