A house-sized asteroid will shave past our planet on October 12, far inside the moon's orbit, but without posing any threat, astronomers said Thursday. The space rock will zoom by harmlessly at a distance of about 44,000 km (27,300 miles) — an eighth of the ...
The growing amount of fast-moving space debris orbiting the Earth could lead to catastrophic collisions with satellites, hurting economies, researchers warned Wednesday ahead of a summit to coordinate efforts to remove the junk. There are an estimated 170 million pieces of so-called "space junk" — ...
It's not only in life that humans leave their mark on Nature. In death, our decomposing corpses alter the chemistry of precious soil, scientists warned on Wednesday. Whether our bodies are buried or cremated, they leach iron, zinc, sulphur, calcium and phosphorus into ground that ...
Tiny tubes and filaments in some Canadian rock appear to be the oldest known fossils, giving new support to some ideas about how life began, a new study says. The features are mineralized remains of what appear to be bacteria that lived some 3.77 billion ...
Nonstop vomiting, a puffy face and the constant need to pee: Volunteers for a week-long loop around the moon may be in for a rough ride even if all goes to plan. In the week that SpaceX announced it would launch two tourists to skirt ...
Oxygen from our atmosphere carried by “Earth wind” has been reaching the moon since ancient times, a Japanese research team discovers.
A mysterious type of radio wave from deep space, discovered only a decade ago, has been traced to a precise source for the first time, astronomers said Wednesday. So-called fast radio bursts (FRBs) picked up in 2016 by a telescope in New Mexico likely emanated ...
The moon is bombarded by so much space rock that its surface gets a complete face-lift every 81,000 years, according to a study released Wednesday based on NASA data. This churn — affecting the top two centimeters (nearly an inch) of mostly loose moon dust ...
A new study paints a picture of an Earth that is warmer than it has been in about 120,000 years, and is locked into eventually hitting its hottest mark in more than 2 million years. As part of her doctoral dissertation at Stanford University, Carolyn ...
Scientists Wednesday announced the discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting the star nearest our Sun, opening up the glittering prospect of a habitable world that may one day be explored by robots. Named Proxima b, the planet is in a "temperate" zone compatible with the ...
Last week, Mercury stole the show. Now it's Mars' turn. On Sunday morning, Mars, Earth and the sun will line up perfectly in the sky. This once-every-two-years event is called Mars opposition. That's because Mars and the sun will be on opposite sides of Earth. Right ...
A SpaceX Dragon capsule headed back to Earth on Wednesday, filled with more than 1,678 kilograms (3,700 pounds) of experiment results and cargo from the International Space Station, a NASA TV broadcast showed. It was the first return load from the station in a year, ...
