About 120 million years ago, Victoria, Australia, was a land of endless winter. The southern coast was a frigid river valley, its banks lined with pine trees and its waters teeming with fish.

By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

Greenland sharks have been identified as the longest-living vertebrates on Earth, potentially reaching ages of up to 500 years. This discovery, based on radiocarbon dating of their eye lenses ...

Firefly Aerospace On its way to the moon, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander has taken its first space pictures as it orbits Earth. The Texas-based company has been sharing the ...

first spied the space rock on December 27. The telescope is one of the asteroid discovery programs funded by NASA to scan the sky in search of near-Earth asteroids, said Davide Farnocchia ...

It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our asteroid-sleuthing telescopes are working. "These things come through on a ...

SEE ALSO: NASA scientist viewed first Voyager images. What he saw gave him chills. But there's something unusual about this super-Earth. Planets orbit their stars in elliptical, or oval ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar system, as detailed in a series of papers ...

“We are not worried at all, because of this 99 percent chance it will miss,” said Paul Chodas, director of NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. “But it deserves attention.” First spotted last ...

An asteroid up to 100 metres wide has a 1-in-83 chance of impacting Earth on 22 December 2032 ... planetary defence response procedures for the first time. “This is a historic moment ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

rather than circular like the Earth, it is unclear whether it would be able to host life. Image: HD 20794 d sits in a 'habitable zone'. Pic: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC)/PA It was first ...