See amazing views of colliding galaxies NGC 520 and barred galaxy IC 4212 in imagery from the Siena Galaxy Atlas. Credit: ...

See views of The Horsehead Nebula, the Perseus Cluster of galaxies, spiral galaxy IC 342, irregular galaxy NGC 6822 and ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08701-z To better understand old planets, we must first learn how young planets behave. Since simulations of Earth's mantle focus mostly on present ...

The White House has opened an investigation into rare-earth minerals that could lead to a tariff on imports. Investors have been rushing into U.S. producers in recent weeks, and the trend ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. While life on Earth does usually find a way, it is not without some intense past–and future–periods of mass death. Extinction ...

Scientists Find Evidence That Overturns Theories of the Origin of Water on Earth Apr. 16, 2025 — Researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Water is at the center of one of the enduring questions about how life first formed on Earth r. More specifically, where did the ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, which is roughly the size at which an asteroid could take out a city ...

Now, another startup, Earth AI, exclusively told TechCrunch about its own discovery: promising deposits of critical minerals in parts of Australia that other mining outfits had ignored for decades.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Asteroid 2024 YR4, initially thought to pose a threat to Earth, will not impact the planet in 2032, though a collision with the moon remains possible. It follows ...