Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

Newly analyzed jawbones from 380-million-year-old lungfish are shedding light on the feeding behaviors of our earliest ...

How often do "shooting stars" land on Earth? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Every year, millions of rocky shards from ...

Science Earth’s Land Masses Are Drying Out Fast, Scientists Warn Researchers comparing satellite measurements of the planet’s water with the wobble in its rotation identified a steady loss of ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

Asteroid-sampling probe took images day after launch, China’s space agency says, as eight universities carry out mock lunar ...

Shubhanshu Shukla, Axiom-4 mission, Axiom Space, ISS, astronaut return July 14, NASA Dragon spacecraft, Shubhanshu Shukla ...

Point Nemo, the loneliest and most remote expanse of ocean on Earth, is where spacecraft go when they die. The South Pacific region, the farthest point in the ocean from any land, is named after ...

Later this week, a piece of Cold War space history is expected to return to Earth—although where it will land remains unclear. Scientists estimate that Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft that launched ...