LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- NASA has further decreased the chance of an impact from asteroid 2024 YR4 to Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, to 0.28 percent, according to the latest NASA estimate on Thursday ...

Workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have started dismantling water storage tanks to free up space for tons of ...

With an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,760 kilometers), our planet Earth is the biggest of the terrestrial planets and the fifth largest planet in our solar system. It is the only planet in the ...

VANCOUVER - A series of wet weather systems bringing rain and a warming trend has prompted high streamflow advisories for ...

The UN nuclear watchdog chief arrives in Japan on Tuesday for a trip that will include his first visit to storage facilities ...

NASA and the European Space Agency's Webb Space Telescope will observe this near-Earth asteroid in March before the object ...

BOTANISTS have found a stand of rare trees in Zanzibar not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa. The intsia trees ...

YR4, detected by the ATLAS system in January 2025, has a slim chance of impacting Earth in December 2032. Continued observations will refine its orbital path. A potential airburst could cause minor to ...

Yuichi Shiokawa, 61, made a tough decision to close the Itsutsubashi branch of Shiokawa Shoten, a small bookstore with a total floor space of about 66 square meters in the Miyagi prefectural capital.

Is the asteroid 2024 YR4 a planet killer? No. Data collected by scientist estimate the asteroid to be between 40 meters and ...

As the French expert indicates, the size of asteroid 2024 YR4 “is between 40 and 100 meters, with a probable estimate of ...