Late last year, a newly discovered asteroid caused quite a stir when initial observations revealed a greater than 1% chance ...

Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

According to the "passback" documents given to NASA officials on Thursday, the space agency's science programs would receive ...

Some NASA Earth science missions have been told to prepare termination plans given the potential for major budget cuts in the ...

With an underlying universal theme of convection, a new textbook introduces upper-level geology, geophysics, physics, and engineering students to the geophysics behind the Earth System.

Sometimes the “whys” of history are lost, and that holds true to why Capt. John Cleves Symmes Jr. wholeheartedly believed the Earth was hollow.