The threat of a civilization-ending asteroid hitting the Earth is well-known — as a plethora of Hollywood movies on the subject has demonstrated. But there is a less-known threa ...

A small asteroid roughly the size of a car is expected to make a close approach to Earth, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) lists it in its public near-Earth object tracking tools. The object ...

U.S. life expectancy rose to 79 years in 2024 - the highest mark in American history. It's the result of not only the dissipation of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also waning death rates from all the ...

FiveThirtyEight founder and prominent pollster Nate Silver revealed that he was surprised by how a large swath of Democrats appears to act as though the party did nothing wrong in the 2024 election.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has decided against releasing its postmortem of the party’s 2024 losses it looks to build on 2025 momentum and take back power in Congress during next year’s ...

In looking back at the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft, hindsight offers far more than clarity -- it offers contrast. One year later, the class has already separated itself into stars-in-the-making, ...

Asteroid 2022 RD2 is a near-Earth object that could become a temporary moon, then later a potential crash risk for the planet later this century. - NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration Scientists have ...

The 2025-26 season is approaching the one-month mark, which makes this a perfect time to check in on the 2024 rookie class and see how this group, which was not as highly regarded as some of the other ...

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Astronomers have discovered a new quasi-moon. 2025 PN7 is not the first quasi-moon, nor the only out there right now. Has Earth acquired a second moon? Not exactly. Astronomers recently discovered a ...