The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other ...
Is it possible to dig all the way through the Earth to the other side? – Anishwar, age 8, India When I was a kid, I liked to dig holes in my backyard in Cincinnati. My grandfather joked that if ...
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A planet’s opposition occurs when Earth passes between it and the Sun. As a consequence of that geometry, Neptune’s disk ...
A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday. Scientists ...