A new climate modeling study presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) asteroid.

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

President Trump’s order to release billions of gallons of water in California’s Central Valley last week — with the purported ...

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...

The Army Corps of Engineers announced plans in October to remove the earthen causeway just west of the marina at a cost of $13.2 million to restore free flowing water and help salmon. The causeway ...

Some natural occurrences are so bizarre they seem straight out of a science fiction movie! From glowing oceans to mysterious sky events, these five mind-blowing natural phenomena will make you ...

The Emergency Assistance Foundation is a one-trick pony. It administers grants for corporations that do not want to run a tax ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

Kevin Righter started at University of Rochester last year, but before that he worked on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, with no ice covering the surface ...