Almost a year ago, the space science community watched as an asteroid entered Earth's orbit and circled above our heads for almost two months before departing. Scientists usually track such asteroids ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Earth Hour - the world's largest environmental movement - is returning for its 18th year and aims to create the biggest hour for Earth yet. On 23 March Earth Hour will focus on uniting people around ...

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On Earth, total solar eclipses are relatively rare celestial phenomena. Months often pass between them, and even then, astronomers and stargazers have to travel around the globe to witness them. For ...

On those three days, just over a millisecond is expected to be shaved off the standard 24-hour day. Of course, you're unlikely to notice such a miniscule difference in your day. But scientists who ...

(CNN) — A series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun have the potential to create dazzling auroras that may be seen as far south as Alabama and Northern California but also disrupt ...

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping ...

International Cooperation in These Endeavors is Imperative, Planetary Society Board of Directors State Science is an imperative. Space is not a luxury. We cannot walk away from these endeavors without ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Climate change is already causing all sorts ...