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While the asteroid threat remains low, experts agree that global cooperation will be essential in addressing potential future ...

Chinese scientists have been continuously observing an asteroid that may collide with Earth in 2032 since early January, ...

In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we speak with two people – a planetary scientist who studies the geology of the Moon, and a space lawyer who studies space policy and geopolitics – about ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

New theory proposes that humans — and analogous life beyond Earth — may represent the probable outcome of biological and planetary evolution ... in the journal Science Advances.

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China is assembling a 'planetary defence' team to monitor asteroids as fears grow over the 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is ...

The massive space rock with the risk of hitting Earth's surface within the next seven years has kept scientists on their toes.

Planetary science is a fascinating field that explores the formation, evolution, and characteristics of celestial bodies within our Solar System. Recent research has significantly advanced our ...

That’s quite a big gap, as it turns out. It covers fields from gigantic bodies like the Sun and Earth, as well as those ...