How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

This time last year, the world was gripped by reports that an incoming, nearly 200-feet-wide asteroid had a tiny, tiny chance of hitting the Earth in 2032. The sigh of relief that we weren’t on course ...

If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that may be visible to the naked eye, a new study finds. When you purchase through ...

Temperatures outside are still downright frigid, but there are hints of spring in the air even as the mercury stays well below normal. Chicago-area residents can be forgiven for feeling like spring is ...

A former Senior Publishing Editor on the Dow Jones Newswires team at The Wall Street Journal, Aaron earned a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Michigan and a Master's in Journalism ...

Capitalism, it has been observed (or at any rate claimed) requires exponential growth. That’s a core assumption of capitalists. Their wealth will grow exponentially. No matter how much they have, in a ...

ROCHESTER N.Y. (WROC) — Jonathan Hammond says he fell out of his chair when a car crashed through his neighbor’s fence and then into his home Saturday night. “It seemed like an asteroid hit the house ...

USA Rare Earth stock tumbled towards the end of 2025 on profit booking. The company, however, expects to start mining at its rich rare-earth deposit in 2028, rather than 2030. It will also commission ...

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026. Image from Gianluca Masi/Virtual Telescope Project www.virtualtelescope.eu A massive near-Earth asteroid of “planet ...

At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. And yet, new research reveals the extent to which Mars is quietly tugging on Earth’s orbit and shaping ...

In early January 2026, a rumor circulated online that Earth would "lose gravity" for seven seconds on Aug. 12, 2026 — leading to "40 million deaths from falls," among other cataclysmic outcomes.

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate far more energy than previously thought without breaking apart—a ...