Even to a casual viewer, the waxing gibbous moon of Feb. 7 will appear quite unusual, climbing so very high in the sky.

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine just how likely it is to strike Earth in 2032.

A team of researchers has found a sinking oceanic "slab" below the Earth’s surface is pulling the northern region of Iraq down with it ... tectonic collisions. By looking at rock records ...

Astronomers have been keeping a close eye on an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long that has a very small chance ... carries an uncommonly high risk of colliding into Earth – an event that ...

"If it was on the 90m end of the scale, we're looking at ... It's very rare that an asteroid of this size has such a high probability of colliding with Earth. Comparisons have been drawn between ...

"It was also a relief, as the original signal was at the very ... looking for signs of life," he explained. "I'm eager to see what other scientists discover, especially since it is among the ...

Churchill noted that the processed mosaics provided by Google Earth often include very high-resolution imagery that can help ... to distinguish individual buildings and easily enough to look at land ...

the Danish Telescope and the Very Large Telescope in Chile to track the asteroid, which is currently more than 30 million miles (48 million kilometers) from Earth and moving farther away over time ...

It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, right on the edge of Earth's atmosphere. High in the skies of ... and would drop straight back down to Earth were it not for the ...

Scientists who just months ago confirmed that Earth’s inner core recently ... what that deformation of the inner core might look like is harder to pin down. “Maybe the topography is going ...