The term "digital twin of the Earth" creates the idea of the availability of a highly accurate virtual copy of our planet, ...

A weird "quasi-moon" of Earth is about to get a name — and you can be part of the process. Earlier this year, the science podcast Radiolab and the International Astronomical Union (IAU) — the ...

Currently, land degradation disrupts food security, drives migration, and fuels conflicts. The global area affected by land ...

Our sister planet is thought to have once been a habitable world, but a new study could change that narrative and alter the ...

The peak of the Geminids meteor shower is coming up this month. Here’s how you can catch this annual phenomenon.

The asteroids, named 447755 (2007 JX2) and (2020 XR), are each estimated to be roughly between 900 feet and 2,100 feet across ...

But near the Pacific Northwest’s particularly fraught fault zone, where the Juan de Fuca plate located just offshore dives ...

NASA is closely monitoring a massive asteroid named 447755 (2007 JX2), which is set to pass by Earth on Tuesday. Scientists ...

Back in April, the White House issued a challenge to scientists to develop a lunar time standard to support future moon bases and increase traffic between ...

The winter solstice is the shortest day and longest night of the year. Here's what Arizonans are asking about the solstice ...

Earth is an ocean world, with water covering about 71% of its surface. Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, is sometimes ...

Though the moon won’t be another supermoon like the last four, here’s everything you need to know about the Cold Moon.