Fossil evidence of how the earliest life on Earth came to be is hard to come by. But scientists have come up with a few ...

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NASA scientists calculated that Earth should have captured a "second ... community@space.com. Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World ...

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Earth is getting a tiny new mini-moon for a few weeks. It won’t be the first – or the last. Earth is going to have its very own mini-moon from 29 September until 25 November. The regular Moon’s new, ...

Well you’d be wrong. Author Edward Brooke-Hitching has spent a lifetime searching for weird and wonderful facts about science, history, nature and famous people for his new book and the results ...

On Nov. 25, it will part ways with the Earth and continue its solo trajectory through the cosmos. It’s expected to pass by again in 2055. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives ...

Earth will capture a miniature, "second moon" this week, according to NASA scientists. The new moon is actually a tiny asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5. It will start orbiting the planet in a horseshoe ...

And you thought your commute was long. A comet that has been on an 81,000-year journey to fly by Earth is finally arriving — and should be visible in our skies in the upcoming days, according to ...

Earth tends to pull asteroids into partial or full orbits around it regularly before they are flung back out into space. Artist’s impression of asteroid in space (NASA/JPL-Caltech) For instance ...

returned to Earth inside Russia's Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft on Monday (Sept. 23), alongside fellow cosmonaut Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, according to Live Science's sister ...