There's a new moon on the horizon. The Earth will gain a second, mini-moon on Sept. 29, but it won't stick around too long, USA TODAY reports. The asteroid 2024 PT5 is expected to escape Earth's orbit ...

Did you know that our planet is rocketing around the sun at 67,000 mph? Or that it once had two moons? Here are some amazing facts about Earth.

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Assistant Professor of Geography and the Environment, University of Richmond With its long days just itching to be spent by water doing nothing, summer really can be an enchanting season. As Jenny Han ...

Bits of the asteroid Bennu are coming back to Earth. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took samples of the asteroid in 2020 which are scheduled to arrive on Earth on 24 September. OSIRIS-REx launched in ...

As the climate crisis becomes ever more serious, each Earth Day that comes along takes on extra significance. Established in 1970 in the US, the annual event—which is celebrating its 55th anniversary ...

The OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule (foreground) landed in the Utah desert on September 24, carrying samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu (background). Illustration by Emily ...

Boise State University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. When I was a kid, I liked to dig holes in my backyard in Cincinnati. My grandfather joked that if I kept digging, I would ...