A NASA satellite that went silent nearly 60 years ago has shocked scientists by suddenly firing off one of the most powerful ...

From hand-sized lantern sharks that glow in the deep sea to bus-sized whale sharks gliding through tropical waters, sharks ...

Earth’s tilt is what causes the seasons; in the summer, when our planet’s pole is tipped toward the sun, the days are longer, ...

A new study predicts Earth will lose its oxygen in a billion years. Toho University researchers used NASA models for this finding. The sun's aging will cause water evaporation and temperature rise.

As the sun ages, rising temperatures will disrupt Earth's climate and ecosystem. Oxygen production will cease as water evaporates and the carbon cycle weakens. A supercomputer simulation by ...

The program was able to calculate the orbits of satellites, which made it possible to determine a model for the exact shape of Earth. Using her background and knowledge of mathematics, West used ...

Though most projections estimate that the object will reenter the atmosphere around May 10, unknowns about its exact shape and size ... 90 times more dense than Earth’s.

Space scientists have worked out the shape of the asteroid that could smash ... there was a small chance the space rock could strike Earth on December 22, 2032. At one point, the asteroid had ...

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It periodically ... at intervals that were an exact multiple of the star ...