A recently-discovered asteroid will soon become a mini-moon of Earth, and it will hang around until Thanksgiving.

Photosynthesis changed Earth in powerful ways. When photosynthetic organisms appeared, it led to the Great Oxygenation Event.

Climate change will fundamentally challenge the world's urban centers. Three cities — San Diego, Milan and Jakarta — offer ...

A new science briefing has revealed there is a "grim outlook" for Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, also known as the 'Doomsday ...

The results, which the researchers call PhanDA, estimate global temperatures over the last 485 million years, going back to ...

"We found an overdensity of planets in this region, indicating a sharp transition between the barren Neptunian Desert and the more populated Neptunian Savanna." ...

A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe has spotted a habitable planet roughly one astronomical ...

"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they’re streaming through the universe, doing their own thing. And the probability is, they’re going through the inner solar system at ...

Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

China set to unveil long-term vision for space science The Chinese Academy of Sciences is aiming to accelerate its progress ...

We know Mars once had an active geological past, filled with water, volcanic activity, and dynamic geological changes. Now, ...