The risk of an asteroid hitting Earth has doubled in a week – but there are no plans yet to build a spacecraft to ­deflect the football pitch-sized rock. A 90-metre-wide space rock passed Earth on ...

YR4, a newly found near-Earth perilous object, has a small chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032. Measuring 40–90m ...

HD 20794 d, with a mass six times that of Earth, orbits a star similar to our sun. The planet’s location within the habitable ...

Boeing Co. expects to lay off hundreds of workers on its SLS moon rocket program, fueling speculation that NASA’s marquee ...

A team of international researchers has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet that may have the right conditions ...

Many of the new satellites currently in Earth's orbit are equipped to provide revolutionary tools and data to improve global food security and strengthen agrifood systems. A new report from the Food ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

With an estimated 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe, the existence of other technological species is highly likely, potentially even within our Milky Way galaxy.

A revolutionary farming approach known as electro-agriculture could dramatically bolster food growing and address the global ...

The newly-discovered Asteroid 2024 YR is being taken seriously by scientists at NASA who say it's got a legit shot at ...