Researchers are still not sure how old the moon is. However, there is now growing evidence that it is almost as old as our ...

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In this week's issue of our environmental newsletter, we get some opinions about which countries will lead on climate now ...

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang ...

Delegates and observers applauded, with caveats, the delayed conclusion of the 16th United Nations Convention on Biological ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.

Earth is moving much faster than it seems. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It may feel like we're standing still, but Earth ...

The latest data, published by ESA, has the chance of impact now at 0.002% — or 1 in 50,000 ... 2024 YR4 orbits the sun every four Earth years, so it passes relatively close to Earth once ...

UPDATE Feb. 24, 2025: With new observations over the weekend, the odds of 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in ... we have eight years until any possible impact, we have only a few months now to observe ...

Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton ... to its home planet and snapped a photo. Now known as “The Pale Blue Dot”—a famous ...

Read the latest. The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the threat once posed by the infamous Apophis. While YR4 still has ...

That's not even close to the size of the "planet-killer" asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to ... it fades from view in April. Now, they're planning to turn the ...