Some say it was a devastating asteroid, but a new, controversial hypothesis argues that massive lava eruptions may have ended the age of the dinosaurs.
It has seen the starry heavens, but at the end of its life cycle, the International Space Station is set to see the bottom of the deep blue sea.
Earth has joined a group of planets like Jupiter, Neptune and Mars which have Trojan asteroids as companions as they move around the sun in their orbits.
Scientists have discovered first Trojan asteroid companion to Earth that orbits around the sun along with Earth for thousands of years.
Astronomers studying data from an orbiting NASA observatory discovered the first known Trojan of the Earth.
We are not alone - a small asteroid, 1,000 feet across, has finally been found and it's orbital path shares Earth's orbit.
Research In Motion
is still in the early stages of a software transition and faces daunting competition from Apple , Google and later Microsoft , a UBS analyst said on Wednesday.The speed and direction of a distant galaxy can be easily measured by analyzing light coming from the galaxy. But to determine the galaxy's distance from Earth was much more difficult.
A mystifying unidentified flying object (UFO) has been captured in a photo in Cape Town, South Africa. Amid multiple claims of UFO sightings from around the world, what makes it unique is the fact that you can also find it using Google Earth.
The largest body of water to date -- anywhere in the universe -- has been discovered in space, with mass measuring several trillion times the water on the whole of planet Earth.
Researchers have found the largest body of water anywhere in the universe, to date, with mass that measures several trillion times the mass of water on the entire planet Earth.
The worst drought in 60 years in the Horn of Africa has sparked a severe food crisis and high malnutrition rates, with parts of Kenya and Somalia experiencing pre-famine conditions, according to a United Nations report.
Astromomers found the largest reservoir of water ever discovered in space, which measures 140 trillion times the earth's ocean water. It is also the farthest reservoir of water discovered in the universe, according to two teams of researchers.
The Kepler Mission is a NASA Discovery Program for detecting potentially life-supporting planets around other stars.
NASA's Hubble Telescope has captured an unusual, ghostly green blob of gas that appears to float near a neighboring spiral galaxy.
Scientists thought it was volcanoes that caused a mass extinction on earth 201 million years ago (this extinction paved the way for the rise of dinosaurs).
Richard Marles, the Australian government's Parliamentary Secretary for the Pacific, warned the United Nations Wednesday of rising sea levels and their impact on low-lying islands and asked them to include climate change as a global security issue.
The distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto has been hiding its fourth moon -- temporarily designated P4 -- that came to the view of NASA astronomers who were using the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 ultraviolet visible instrument.
The Quake Was Centered 26 Miles Southwest of Ferghana in Uzbekistan.
Atlantis, the last U.S. space shuttle is returning back home.
About 50 percent of the Earth's internal heat stems from a radioactive decay process, a new study has found, and it's strong enough to literally move the ground under your feet.
A recent study from Berkeley Lab scientists and their KamLAND colleagues finds that half of the Earth's heat comes from radioactive decay. But, what about the rest?
