Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton space rock that crashed into Earth this week after a dazzling fireball that was ...

At last, a reason to visit Ohio. Meteorite hunters are descending on the Buckeye State after a huge meteor streaked across the sky and rained down interplanetary fragments. The space rock — ...

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers have so far identified over 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, only a ...

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore talks to PEOPLE about his near-death experience on the Starliner mission, which left him ...

The Betsa family joined dozens at River Styx Park hunting for meteorites after NASA identified the area as the likely landing ...

From Don’t Look Up to Greenland, here are 5 asteroid-apocalypse movies to binge right now after the viral Ohio meteor boom.

A new study shows cultural evolution helped humans expand across Earth far faster than genetic change alone could achieve.

Snowpiercer, a graphic novel, movie and TV series, imagines a different deep-freeze scenario: Geoengineering gone haywire. To mitigate global warming, scientists released aerosols into the atmosphere ...

Retired astronaut Butch Wilmore reflected on the thoughts he had when he and former colleague Sunita Williams were stranded in space for nearly 300 days in June 2024.

Paul R. Ehrlich will be remembered as a scientist whose books about population and threats to the environment shaped the idea of limited growth in the modern era.