Asteroids have struck Earth occasionally over its long history, often with cataclysmic results. An asteroid estimated at 6-9 ...

1️⃣ Private prisons: On the campaign trail in 2020, Joe Biden made a bold pledge that he would end the federal use of private prisons, where inmates often complain of abusive treatment. That didn’t ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Researchers said the planet has a mass six times that of our Earth, and orbits in a "habitable zone" of a Sun-like star. While it is located 20 light-years away, scientists believe the planet - called ...

About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs ... There's a fancy word for fossilized vomit: regurgitalite. Paul Olsen, a professor of earth and ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super-Earth” located 20 light-years away that could ... who first detected the planet two years ago. Gabriel Pérez / IAC Dubbed HD 20794 ...

it's just 19.7 light-years away from Earth. This raises the tantalizing possibility that we could snap pictures of any aliens lurking there. 'Excitingly, its proximity with us – only 20 light ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years from Earth. The "promising" super-Earth - called HD 20794 d - may house water, according to the international ...