Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall back to our planet. Exactly where or when it will strike, however, remains ...

A storm as ferocious as the one of 12,350 BC would likely cause complete mayhem if it were to strike Earth and its ...

A defunct, Soviet-era spacecraft is falling back to Earth uncontrolled, but experts say there’s ... NASA said the landing location could be “anywhere between 52 N and 52 S latitude,” a huge swath that ...

Just weeks ago, scientists warned that a "city killer" asteroid had a small chance of hitting Earth. While that prediction ... could land anywhere between latitude 52 degrees north and 52 degrees ...

Blackouts and power grid disruptions could follow a massive solar storm after it hit the Earth this week ... which the NOAA has marked down as a G3, the third highest of the five solar storm ...

From lower latitudes (either from the north or south) the ecliptic, or plane of the Earth's orbit projected ... is setting and marked by Canopus, about 20 degrees above the southwestern horizon.

The Ordovician Impact Spike was a 40 million year period when more meteors than usual bombarded Earth, but, strangely, they all seemed to land in the tropical latitudes close to the equator ...

Whether you are staying at home or heading out on vacation, your latitude location will play a part in the celestial delights you will observe. The entire planet Earth is encircled by the sky.

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth ... tropical latitudes feature desert, while at higher latitudes cold ...