NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a massive panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), which is situated just over 2.5 million light-years away from Earth and is ...

The light reaching your eyes tonight left Andromeda 2.5 million years ago. At that time, early human ancestors, Homo habilis, had just begun making stone tools on Earth. That means when ... history ...

However, it's not the driest desert on Earth. That title goes to Dead Vlei ... Dead Vlei sees less than 10mm of rain each year. The white clay pan floor of Dead Vlei consists of dry, cracked ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

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The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could ... The asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs ...

That’s not even close to the size of the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led ... YR4 is determined to be on a future collision course with Earth.

It reaches the Earth through precipitation and can accumulate on the seabed. With a half-life of 1.4 million years, 10 Be decays ... analyze more samples in the future and hope that other research ...