A prolonged atmospheric river will continue to drive moisture into the Pacific Northwest and northern California. Rain, snow ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday.

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking into Earth in 2032, space agency officials have said. Scientists put the odds of a strike at slightly more than 1%. “We are not worried at all ...

An object in space that astronomers initially identified as an alarmingly close asteroid headed towards Earth turns out to be a Tesla car that Elon Musk launched in 2018 as part of a publicity ...

Its resemblance to Mauna Loa, Earth's largest active volcano, and the typical non-explosive nature of shield volcano eruptions, lessens the concern among volcanologists about the imminent eruption. ' ...

at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawai'i to show that the spectrum of reflected sunlight from the small object's surface didn't match that of any known asteroid type; instead, the reflected light ...

Asteroid 2024 WY70 is about 820 feet (250 meters) wide. It will make a close approach to Earth, coming within 6.3 million kilometres, which is about 16 times the distance from Earth to the Moon.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is closely monitoring an asteroid that will pass Earth on 21 January 2025. Named 2017 BN92, the space rock poses no threat to the planet. How Close Will It ...