EARTH

A new study shows that most of the gold and other precious metals found in Earth today came from outer space after a mammoth meteorite shower slammed the planet.

A closer looks at the Earth's crust has revealed that there are many more precious metals on Earth than expected, thought to have come from a rain of meteors billions of years ago.

2011 has been an unprecedented year for extreme weather, and a new report links the meteorological fury to the long arc of climate change.

3.9 billion years ago, a meteor shower which lasted for 200 million years brought gold on Earth, scientists revealed in a new research.

A defunct 7-ton research satellite is falling earth bound and due to re-enter the atmosphere with a potential to rain debris onto the earth's surface, NASA reports.

Semafo Inc., a Canada-based gold mining company, said Thursday it will spend up to $125 million to increase the processing capacity of a key facility in Burkina Faso by 6,000 metric tons per day.

Warning sky gazers: Equip yourselves with umbrellas and other protective gears later this month and in early October as a massive, 7-ton defunct NASA satellite is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere and will possibly rain down debris on our planet as it disintegrates during re-entry.

The countdown to twin GRAIL spacecraft mission to Moon is moving ahead toward a lift-off at 8:37 am EDT, NASA said in a statement. Forecasters still are calling for a 40 percent chance of good weather at the scheduled launch time.

The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) was deployed by the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-48) on Sept. 15, 1991 to study Earth’s atmosphere. Now a junk, the satellite is falling to Earth.

Forbes' latest ranking of China's richest people pits stolid industrial muscle against high-tech, with the head of an earth-moving company pipping the co-founder of the nation's biggest Internet search engine for the top spot.

NASA's Juno spacecraft, while traveling to Jupiter, managed to capture a rare image of the Earth and Earth's Moon.

According to a new research precious metals arrived on the earth when a cataclysmic meteor shower pounded our planet 3.9 billion years ago.

The sun unleashed an unusually strong X2.1-class solar flare on Tuesday which was four times stronger than the earlier M-class flare that erupted on Sept. 6 at about 0150 GMT.

A 20-year-old NASA satellite is set to plunge back to Earth between late September and early October and is expected to rain debris over a wide area.

Director Abel Ferrara ponders how we would behave knowing death was coming to us all in an environmental disaster in 4:44 Last Day on Earth, his latest film starring Willem Dafoe.

As Arctic sea ice continues rapidly melting, a new study predicts it may completely disappear in future with huge consequence for regional ecosystems and the global climate.

NASA's Earth Observatory has released a photo of the border between India and Pakistan taken from the International Space Station. The striking orange line depicting the hostile Asian border, however, is not a product of photoshop. This is the fenced and floodlit border zone between India and Pakistan. The fence is designed to discourage smuggling and arms trafficking and shows how divided the two nations are.

A Texas wildfire raging through Bastrop County, about 25 miles east of Austin, has set an unwelcome record for the most homes destroyed by a blaze in the state's history.

Ugandan teachers went on strike for the second time this year on Monday after fruitless month-long talks with the government for a 100 percent pay rise, the latest in a string of protests in the east African country.

Scientists say the disintegration of the Petermann Glacier -- measuring 186 miles long and 3,280 feet high -- may just be the tip of the iceberg concerning climate change's impact in colder zones.

There has always been a big puzzle about the emergence of life on Earth billions of years ago. A new research has provided a fresh argument in this regard, saying that floating rafts of glassy, porous, and gas-rich pumice could have a significant contribution to the origin of life on Earth.