When it comes right down to it, the only examples we have to go on are "life as we know it" (aka Earth organisms ... could look like 1,000 years from now. Their research could have implications ...

The space agency duly obliged, and now we have observatories such ... four that will likely remain in the vicinity of Earth for the next 1,000 years. Of those, the asteroid with the largest ...

More than 1,200 years ago, intense bursts of charged particles slammed into Earth. Yet, the only remaining evidence of the extreme cosmic event — which scientists say should have been visible in ...

Earth is also unique in terms of monikers. Every other solar system planet was named for a Greek or Roman deity, but for at least a thousand years, some cultures have described our world using the ...

The Earth takes a direct hit from an asteroid of that size only once every few thousand years. In 1908, a slightly smaller asteroid - thought to have measured 60m across - exploded over Siberia.