About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly 6 miles wide struck what is now Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, releasing ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago may also have helped fuel the remarkable rise of ants.

NASA's DART spacecraft collided with the asteroid Dimorphos at a speed of approximately 6 km/s. This was the first experiment ...

A decades-long mystery beneath the North Sea has finally been solved. Scientists have confirmed that the Silverpit Crater, ...

Crocodile relatives largely followed warm climates for 245 million years, expanding toward the poles during hotter periods. Fossil records and climate simulations suggest tropical refuges could have ...

The universe is a large and interesting place. There are so many things that make you raise your eyebrow. For […] ...

On Friday, April 13, 2029, asteroid Apophis will sweep just 19,400 miles above Earth — closer than geostationary satellites — and be visible to the naked eye.

The first few billion years of Earth's history saw the rise of life, the atmosphere and the oceans. Still, that time is shrouded in mystery: Not many rocks remain that preserve a record of those early ...

New simulations reveal the one option left when warning time runs out—and it’s nuclear.

Remember that meteorite​ that landed in Cape Cod Bay​​? Researchers have been working to figure out exactly what happened in ...