As asteroid 1997 NC1 speeds past Earth this Saturday, many people are wondering whether our planet is in danger. The close ...

A violent collision in the main asteroid belt may have sent debris raining across the inner solar system about 800 million years ago. The event could explain a long-debated spike in lunar impacts and ...

Astronomers discover Beta Pictoris d, a faint gas giant exoplanet, expanding insights into planet formation in multi-planet ...

After more than ten years of playing hide-and-seek, researchers have discovered one of the lightest planets ever directly ...

On a three-day fungi workshop in Australia’s largest cool temperate rainforest, Alexis Buxton-Collins unearths an unexpected appreciation for the third kingdom of life ...

The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre states that there are 919 active wildfires in Canada, with 3,891 total ...

With hunting and logging advocacy groups mounting a long-standing campaign against national parks, the Victorian capital has ...

Europe's planetary-defence probe has passed its last significant technical hurdle: a more-than-two-week software upgrade conducted 140 million kilometres from Earth, completed on July 8 with two ...

Around 7:15 am on June 30 in 1908, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II, an object from space entered Earth's atmosphere over Siberia. And it changed science forever.

Over 70 years of space exploration, humanity has put thousands of satellites into orbit that provide communications, navigation, weather forecasting, and scientific research. But along with the new ...

The cost of reaching orbit is now falling faster than that of steamship freight during the 1800s, a shift that economists say ...

Eglin AFB’s massive range, advanced testing and multi‑domain integration make it unmatched in proving and refining US ...