Saturn is a planet widely recognisable for its iconic rings but a new study suggests Earth may also have had a similar ring system over 50 million years ago. As part of the research, 21 asteroid ...

The Earth is getting a second 'mini-moon' later this month, but it'll only last from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25, researchers say.

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, ...

“Too much of the world, it seems, has come under human influence during a time when we’re not very good at working out how to ...

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

Some of the most dramatic climate events in history are the Snowball Earth episodes, which occurred hundreds of millions of ...

Researchers created a curve of global mean surface temperature throughout deep time, providing context for understanding ...

At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...

As with so many things in the fickle world of spaceflight, NASA already had a contingency plan in place for this exact ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

Though the mini-moon will only be in Earth’s orbit for about two months, it’ll stay close to the planet for a few months, ...