The Earth will temporarily have a second moon this year when a small asteroid begins orbiting the planet for about two months ...

The first asteroid, 2024 RJ1, measures 130 feet across. It will pass Earth at a distance of 3,660,000 miles. This distance ...

The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

Forbes spotlights entrepreneurs, scientists, philanthropists, corporate leaders and policymakers focused on sustainable ...

In Puerto Rico and other hard-hit places, marine researchers are trying to restore reefs and make corals more resilient — with some recent success.

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

Gravitational lenses bend and focus light from the more distant cosmos, offering astronomers a cheat code for chronicling the ...

A small asteroid may become a "mini-moon" of Earth's for a couple of months, according to some astronomers. But what makes ...

New Starlink satellites’ radiation leaks are 30 times as large as those emitted by older satellites, scientists discover ...