The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it?

The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense Objects (CUDOs) with a mass density greater than Osmium, the densest naturally ...

The Earth is currently edging into three active meteor debris fields: the Southern Delta Aquariids, the Alpha Capricornids and the Perseids.

The word inertia has two different definitions, even though they really are the same. The first is a tendency to do nothing ...

Meenakshi Wadhwa was recruited from Arizona State University, where she’s been serving as director of the School of Earth and ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

The Southern Delta Aquariids are active alongside the trusty Perseid meteor shower.

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

The best meteor shower of the year is already happening in Pennsylvania. While we haven't hit peak viewing yet, the Perseids ...

A massive landslide would have dammed the Colorado River, forming a deep lake that has since dried up. A meteorite impact ...

There’s really no substitute for ‘ground truth,’ and the Martian meteorites represent the only known samples from that planet.” In those words, geochemist Ralph Harvey encapsulates the scientific ...

The largest meteorite ever found on Earth is the Goba meteorite, which weighs an astonishing 66 tons and measures about 3 ...