It isn’t easy to figure out how the Earth was built, because it happened 4½ billion years ago, and no one was there to watch. So scientists have had to look at what the Earth looks like now and ...

Elon Musk warns that the sun's expansion will eventually destroy all life on Earth, emphasizing the urgent need to colonize Mars as a 'life insurance' for humanity. SpaceX is accelerating efforts ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Rare earth elements, comprising 17 metals, are essential for technologies such as electric motors, medical imaging, and electronics. Although not truly rare ...

A Soviet space probe stuck in orbit since a failed 1972 launch has finally crashed to Earth. At 9:24 a.m. Moscow time (2:24 a.m. EDT) on May 10, the spacecraft, dubbed Kosmos 482, entered Earth ...

Just weeks ago, scientists warned that a "city killer" asteroid had a small chance of hitting Earth. While that prediction was thankfully revised, the planet may have to worry about another object ...

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Few science fiction universes have combined ancient mythology and sci-fi storytelling as convincingly as Stargate. What ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its uncontrolled ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA scientists, in collaboration with researchers from Japan’s University of Toho ...

Night Editor Donald Trump hinted at a “truly earth-shattering” announcement set to be made in the next few days ahead of the president’s visit to the Middle East. Trump, 78, teased the ...

On May 9, a stadium-sized potentially hazardous asteroid will pass by Earth, and you can watch the flyby happen in real time courtesy of a livestream from The Virtual Telescope Project.