Fiji, an archipelago of breathtaking beauty shimmering in the South Pacific, lies approximately 1,300 miles from Australia’s ...

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 ...

July 9 will be one of the shortest days ever, as Earth is spinning faster and scientists are still working to understand why.

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

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

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

As for when this three-day event will happen, there are three days this summer when the moon will be around its furthest ...

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

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.