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Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

A rare rock from Mars known as Meteorite NWA 16788 will be up for auction at Sotheby's on July 16. The meteorite may sell for ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Scientists anticipate that Earth's rotation will quicken enough to create three shorter days between July and August, ...

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...

When NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, its mission was clear: to explore the stars and uncover distant ...

Earth is set to experience unusually short days in July and August 2025. The Moon's orbital position is subtly accelerating ...

The universe is home to over 2 trillion stars, galaxies, and planets, and Earth, our home, is just one small part of this vast cosmos. Our planet has witnessed the rise and fall of many life forms, ...

Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...

Atomic clocks — among the most precise instruments humans have ever built — have been keeping track of Earth’s spin since the ...