The $105 million sci-fi flop with shades of Dune and Lord of the Rings is officially staging a worldwide takeover, 22 years ...

On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon.

Newly spotted asteroid 2026 JH2, which could be up to 115 feet wide, will fly past Earth closer than some satellites on ...

The Global Positioning System works because satellites carry atomic clocks. Those satellites orbit high above Earth, where ...

Scientists discovered that some of Earth’s supposed earliest animal fossils were actually giant ancient microbes.

Nuclear war is much more unpredictable than asteroids, but, unlike the dinosaurs of 66 million years ago, humans can avoid ...

Called bernwoodite, it’s one of two new minerals Korolev and his adviser at the AMNH, Kate Kiseeva, and their colleagues ...

Here’s what to know about the biggest sources of tension in U.S.-China relations before the first summit in Beijing in nine ...

Ancient volcanoes in the Arctic may have trapped Earth in repeated "Snowball Earth" freezes for 56 million years.

What drives someone to spend $80 million on a centuries-old ceramic bowl? Or millions more on a faded manuscript, a single ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed a new method which could help scientists perform large-scale climate ...

In a recent paper in Nature, a team of scientists led by Kimihiko Nakajima, an astronomer at the Kanazawa University, Japan, ...