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 ...

The Dominican government also issued a tsunami alert and recommended residents on the coast move to high areas “of more than 20 meters of altitude and 2 kilometers inland.” But it later ...

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 ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Multiple earthquakes are rattling Santorini, a volcanic island in Greece, prompting authorities to dispatch rescuers with tents, a sniffer dog and drones, and to shut schools on ...

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

It is thought to be 40-100 meters wide. Uncertainty is still high and more and ... NASA says, 'These deaths could result from a direct hit or by tsunami (tidal wave) in the event of an ocean strike.' ...

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 Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

Based on its brightness, astronomers estimate it is between 130 and 300 feet (40–90 meters) wide ... it happens near a coastline triggering a tsunami. The good news, experts stress, is that ...