Earth reaches its closest point to the sun in its 2026 orbit on Jan. 3. The sun will appear larger in the sky than on any ...

SpaceX will launch the first mission of 2026 tonight (Jan. 2), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket is ...

Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

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With findings on Earth’s polar extremes and its innermost core, scientists shaped how we look at the planet in 2025 in surprising and fascinating ways.

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

Many tipping elements are now well-known: the Amazon rainforest, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

The US and China both want to be the first to launch a powerful AI data center beyond Earth, but the latter has seemingly ...