The rain did not stop Ithaca community members from exploring Ithaca’s second annual Earth Day Festival, held Saturday ...

New research suggests meteor showers are so unpredictable due to the Sun’s own motion around the solar‑system barycenter.

Consider the astronomical and environmental changes of a miniature sun. A diver on an expedition off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, captured stunning footage showing the moment another swam ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

Their findings, published today in Nature Astronomy, indicate that carbon asteroids get obliterated by the Sun and Earth’s atmosphere before they can make it to ground. “We’ve long suspected ...

Scientists are currently planning two major space missions to search for life in space: NASA's Project HWO and Project LIFE, ...

The northern lights revealed themselves to a handful of states Tuesday, but if you missed out, you still have a chance to ...

As part of their "What If?" series, Randall Munroe of xkcd and Henry Reich of MinutePhysics answered "What happens if the sun ...

A strong solar storm is headed to Earth and could cause colorful aurora displays in many parts of the United States, ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, which is roughly the size at which an asteroid could take out a city, or ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...