Asteroid 2024 UQ impacted Earth above the Pacific Ocean. The space rock was about 3 feet (1 meter) wide. It was detected by the ATLAS survey on the day it struck Earth. Credit: Space.com | animation: ...
A captivating new video shows how Earth's magnetic field went haywire and almost completely disappeared during our planet's most recent "polar reversal event," around 41,000 years ago. A haunting ...
The annual clock of the seasons—winter, spring, summer, autumn—is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows ...
We often hear about the number of objects that are whizzing around our planet, but it’s rare that we actually get to see the situation for ourselves. NASA released a decent visualization a couple of ...