Earth is facing two major natural threats: one from deep space and one from beneath our feet. In this playlist, we look at ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

A black fungus thriving inside Chernobyl’s reactor could help shield astronauts from deadly space radiation. Here’s how ...

Chris Stokes receives funding from the the Natural Environment Research Council (NE/R000824/1). Florence Colleoni has previously received some funding from national Italian Programma Nazionale sulle ...

For most of us, our home is the place where we feel safest, but 9 out of 10 fire deaths in the U.S. happen inside a house. And the risk of deadly fires goes up during the holiday season. Sher Grogg, ...

The CRASH Clock is a new metric for measuring the risks of satellite congestion in low-Earth orbit. Its calculations are disturbing. Reading time 2 minutes Last week, a Chinese spacecraft passed ...

A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is heading toward Earth, making its closest approach Friday, and the United Nations’ International Asteroid Warning Network, or the IAWN, is monitoring its trajectory ...

Tracking comets accurately is hard. A new effort with the U.N. and NASA aims to better chart these visitors using 3I/ATLAS. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Pope Leo XIV warned that intelligence agencies in some countries work against the Catholic Church, “oppressing its freedom” by using confidential information for “nefarious purposes.” In an audience ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for over a decade. The loss of signal occurred on Dec. 6 as the orbiter passed behind Mars from Earth's perspective. MAVEN ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s soaring towards Earth at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to measure ...