Scientists predict each day on Earth will be as long as 25 hours, although a million years from now. A day longer than the ...

But Earth's rotation has been slowing due to tidal interactions with the Moon, meaning that days were considerably shorter in ...

The smaller of the pair was spotted only this month and could be visible with binoculars as it passes by our planet within ...

In a paper recently published in the journal Science Advances ... much time and so many resources on clocking the speed of ...

More recently, in February 2013, a 20-meter (66-foot) space rock struck Earth near the Chelyabinsk ... for telescope viewing ...

The two asteroids set to sweep by Earth this week in time for Asteroid Day 2024 include the recently discovered 2024 ... Josh ...

Geologists have discovered two alien minerals unknown to earth in a fragment of the 15,000 kilogram meteorite in Somalia ...

His latest book concerns climate change, but science journalist Ferris Jabr finds literary inspiration in everything from ...

During 37 years of operations, the now-closed Argyle mine produced more than 865 million carats (191 tons) of rough diamonds ...

Across the Midwest during the warmer months, studying the sky for signs of storms and tornadoes becomes one of the most ...

In research published in the American Journal of Botany, University of Connecticut Department of Earth Sciences Assistant ...

On Tuesday, a strange bell-shaped casket floated gently down onto the plains of Inner Mongolia. It came from outer space and ...