“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

Recently the asteroid 2024 YR4, which is expected to pass Earth in 2032, was calculated to have a 1 in 83 chance of striking ...

Discovered on April 5, 2024 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), it is a nonperiodic comet that's traveling on an orbit that won't bring it back to the sun's neighborhood ...

If you've been losing sleep at night over a certain threatening asteroid dominating the news cycle, it's time to catch up on your rest. The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in ...

Danny Mantle eyed a merchandise table in the corner of the room. It was stacked with Oklahoma City Comets gear. “I think they did a great job on the T-shirts,” Mantle said. “I’m going to go grab a ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Most showers happen around the same time every twelve months as our planet passes through the debris trails of comets. Meteor showers are a permanent fixture on astronomers' calendars because of ...

Around 30 major showers light up the night sky and are visible from Earth every year. Most showers happen around the same time every twelve months as our planet passes through the debris trails of ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

Częstochowa Raków, early Iron Age cemetery, Archaeological Reserve. Credit: Michał Bugaj / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Scientists in Poland have uncovered ancient Iron Age ornaments and jewelry crafted from ...

However, this hypothesis evolved in the 1990s following analysis of Earth’s water composition and the discovery of the potential role of icy comets, pointing to an extraterrestrial origin.