So while the odds have doubled, astronomers aren't too worried. When 2024 YR 4 had a risk of less than 1%, NASA's Planetary ...

Earth is crossing the threshold of 1.5°C of global warming, according to two major global studies which together suggest the ...

Many of us pay attention to the foods we're putting in our bodies – asking ourselves whether they're nutritious and healthy ...

The event is designated EP240408a, as it was first detected by the Einstein Probe, an X-ray space telescope, on 8 April 2024.

Our Solar System, like a sneaky little hobbit, seems to have stuffed its pockets full of hidden oceans. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have moons astronomers think might be harboring liquid ...

A new, detailed probe of Earth's heart reveals that the rotating inner core doesn't just change in rotation speed – it also appears to change in shape, with subtle variations appearing in the way ...

Around a galaxy just 590 million light-years away, astronomers have discovered a stunning example of one of the rarest ...

A new model of Alzheimer's disease has been proposed, which could speed up efforts to understand and cure the complex ...

In 2019 an international team of researchers identified 109 genes that were associated in different combinations with eight ...

We've yet to see a falling piece of space debris strike an airplane, but if it happens, the consequences would almost ...

Greece's government has just declared a state of emergency on the island of Santorini, as earthquakes shake the island ...

If you look up at the sky on a clear day, you might notice little cobweb-like structures drifting across your field of vision ...