NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

Scientists and schoolteachers have teamed up to design training and classroom materials that help educators understand and ...

This map shows where on Earth the average temperature in 2024 was higher or lower than the 20th-century baseline. Red indicates higher-than-average temperatures, while blue indicates lower-than ...

2023 was the hottest year on record, NASA and NOAA say — Fall 2024 was Earth's warmest autumn ever — NASA confirms summer 2023 was Earth's hottest on record These short-term influences aside ...

The comet, named C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), made its closest approach to Earth on Tuesday (Jan. 14) when it came within 88 million miles (142 million kilometers) of our planet. A day earlier, it reached ...

It warmed Earth’s surface – particularly over a large swathe of the central and eastern Pacific – and increased global average surface temperature by up to 0.2°C. Copernicus found 2024 was ...

This beautiful photo shows comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) flying near Earth, as seen by astronaut Don Pettit on the International Space Station on 11 January. It was first spotted by NASA’s Asteroid ...

Scientists are issuing a stark warning about the changing climate after the planet reached a key warming benchmark in 2024. Newly released ... those effects. The Earth hitting the 1.5-degree ...

The Earth was an average of 1.47 degrees Celsius warmer than the 1850-1900 average in 2024 — with averages for ... The frequency and severity of those "sunny day" floods are predicted to worsen ...

Earth's average land and ocean surface temperature in 2024 was 2.32°F (1.29°C) above the 20th-century average—the highest global temperature among all years in NOAA's 1850–2024 climate record.

China's rare earth imports last month dropped 41.1% from a year earlier to 9,645 tons, producing a 2024 total of 132,931 tons, down 24.4% from 2023. Analysts say the 2024 fall was mainly due to ...