Pi Day itself dates to 1988, when physicist Larry Shaw began celebrations at the Exploratorium science museum in San ...

An ancient mass extinction event left a long-hidden refuge, whose survivors repopulated the Earth much faster than previously ...

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has reduced the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in 2032 to 0.001 per cent, down from a record-high 3.1 per cent last week. The asteroid, 40-90 ...

The asteroid, called 2024 YR4, which is estimated to be between 130 and 300 feet wide, was first detected on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...

Right now, astronomers estimate the asteroid is between 40 meters and 90 meters wide, which is roughly 130 to 295 feet wide. For reference, an American football field measures 100 yards — or 300 ...

Tholen, along with IfA colleagues Richard Wainscoat and Rob Weryk, analyzed images captured by the CFHT’s MegaCam, a 380 megapixel wide-field camera designed for asteroid tracking and deep-space ...

PITTSBURG, Kan. — Four months after EaglePicher Technologies announced construction of a $25 million energetics plant in Joplin, the company unveiled plans for a plant in Pittsburg that will ...

(NewsNation) — The odds that a potentially destructive asteroid will collide with Earth in 2032 have increased once again, NASA says, but the chance of an actual impact is still quite slim.

The chances of a city-destroying asteroid hitting Earth is ... out to be similar to the width of a soccer field. While NASA recently increased the chances of it colliding with Earth to 2.6 percent, it ...