a professor of Earth and planetary sciences who specializes in earthquakes and Earth structure at Yale University. "We should expect the same kind of damage report and also loss of life from this ...

The collapse of the State Audit Office building during construction in Chatuchak district was due to an unstable structure, according to the Bangkok Fire and Rescue Department. The department’s ...

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 ...

Each new observation sharpens our view of the universe’s large-scale structure. Filaments of normal and dark matter stretch across space like a vast web. These filaments are where galaxies formed and ...

This slice of the DESI data maps celestial objects from Earth (center) to billions of light years away. Among the objects are nearby bright galaxies (yellow), luminous red galaxies (orange), ...

An ancient impact site in a remote corner of northern Australia was recently spotted by Earth-observing satellites monitoring our planet’s resources. The images, captured in early February by the ...