A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick may have covered the entire planet.

Anna Moschovakis' 'An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth" takes on a world defined by disruption, ...

What Glaciers, Ice Mummies, and Ancient Artifacts Teach Us about Climate, Culture, and a Future Without Ice” was published in September by Timber Press.

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

A chunk of rock and ice about the same size as a bus is due to skim past the Earth on Monday. The asteroid, named (2024 UQ1), measures between 25.3 feet and 55.8 feet, according to NASA's Jet ...

Four astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after a nearly eight-month ... But their homecoming was stalled by problems with Boeing’s new Starliner astronaut capsule, which came back empty ...

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Before the arrival of S2, Earth appeared very different from how ... The impact of S2 brought new nutrients to the oceans, set off a massive tsunami and created a cloud of dust above the planet.

Four large asteroids will make their closest approaches to Earth on Thursday, each passing by the planet within a 24-hour time frame. Two had already zipped past early in the morning, according to ...

A Minnesota-based company has opened its commercial pilot plant to ramp up rare earth-free permanent magnet production. Niron Magnets’ facility in Minneapolis will produce sustainable ...

These four rock stars are embarking on a world tour. NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will skim past Earth today — one of four “hazardous” space rocks to ...

The asteroid’s trajectory was monitored closely by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which collected a sample of the asteroid and returned it to Earth in ... evidence for new physics,” says ...