The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

The Dance of Warm Oceans and Cool Skies Hurricanes don't just pop out of nowhere; they need the perfect mix of ingredients to form. These colossal storms originate over warm ocean waters, typically ...

In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...

Offering rare insights in the Government’s economic thinking and giving a snapshot of the Indian Economy, together with a ...

Every state but Hawaii, California and Florida is likely to get a taste of wind chills of 20 degrees or colder.

Back then, it was a regional list, conceived as an objective way to determine which mountains in the Indonesian archipelago would probably be worth attempting to hike at weekends. We developed the ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln research team has identified new microscopic players in the global carbon cycle, a discovery ...

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...