China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, in the early hours of Thursday, an endeavour to shed ...

The ocean covers almost 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, and over 95 percent remains unexplored. With so much of the ocean ...

After gathering at least 100 grams of material, Tianwen-2 will send a capsule packed with the samples back to Earth, aiming ...

NASA’s Asteroid Watch Dashboard has issued a new list of five asteroids on approach, with close passes to Earth expected ...

Seismic imaging has exposed two massive zones hidden deep in Earth’s mantle. These giant blobs, known as large low-velocity ...

Discover the journey of Odisha's Bholghati Meteorite from its fall in 1905 to preservation at New York's American Museum.

There's an entire mountain range as big as the European Alps completely hidden under Antarctica's ice that no one has ever ...

Supermassive black holes shoot energy in bullet-like bursts rather than steady winds, affecting galaxy formation.

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, ...

Many textbooks depict Earth’s internal structure as a rigidly stratified ... the mantle is not uniform but exhibits gradual changes in composition and behaviour: for example, the upper mantle ...

A surprise solar storm turned a NASA simulation into a real-world space weather crisis. As the Gannon geomagnetic storm ...