Massive ripples in the very fabric of space and time wash over Earth constantly, although you'd never notice. An astrophysicist is trying a new search for these gravitational waves.

In December, astronomers identified that the asteroid YR4 had a small but not insignificant chance of striking Earth in 2032, ...

The work that we’re doing is really important because warning time is everything,” says Danica Remy of the B612 Foundation in ...

Ancient North American droughts were driven by Earth’s orbital shifts, study from the University of Helsinki finds.

I n the coming years, fleets of orbit-policing spacecraft could zip around the planet, keeping an eye on space tech ventures ...

Space agencies working on the NASA-led Artemis lunar exploration campaign said they plan to continue work on their ...

A new study links the severe climate to a change in Earth's ... All of the Biggest U.S. Cities Are Sinking May 8, 2025 — A new study of the 28 most populous U.S. cities finds that all are ...

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall ...

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially dangerous asteroids and meteors have only seriously materialized in the ...

Low Earth orbit (LEO) is on the verge of a major expansion in crewed operations, but the proliferation of space debris could threaten these missions and create safety hazards for astronauts.