Doomsday meteors get a bad rap. For decades, these poor rocks have been tarnished in the press and demonized in major ...

This understanding may help our planet to save life itself.

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In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth ...

Scientists have confirmed for the first time that the ancestors of mammals reproduced by laying eggs, following the discovery of a 250-million-year-old fossilised embryo in South Africa. Therapsids, ...

Somewhere in the Sahara Desert in 2011, a fragment of Mars was sitting on the sand, waiting. It had been there for roughly ...

Dino-heads on TikTok are chopping up animated footage of the prehistoric beasts (mostly taken from the recent Netflix ...

Asteroid impacts may have helped kick-start life on Earth by creating hot, chemical-rich environments ideal for early biology. These impact-generated hydrothermal systems could have lasted thousands ...

Perry Samson was helping students conduct field experiments on supercell storms in Kansas in 2008 when one suddenly turned into a tornado and dragged him in.

The Silverpit crater mystery in the North Sea appears to have been solved. Scientists say it was formed by an asteroid 43 ...