Scientists are investigating whether an asteroid impact could have triggered Earth’s first great flood, reshaping the planet’s surface billions of years ago. Evidence suggests that a massive space ...

Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...

A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

A combination of a dynamo-generated magnetic field and massive impacts could explain the highly magnetized rocks in some ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...

Learn more about how this hydrothermal system may have provided life on Earth with vital nutrients after the dino-killing ...

Pollen grains are far more than allergens – they are nature’s time capsules, preserving clues about Earth’s past environments ...

A duck-billed Hadrosaurus was unearthed in Haddonfield, New Jersey, in 1858. Just 12 miles from this Mantua museum site, the ...

NASA end of the world warning about potential global threats raises concerns. Discover the risks and what they mean for ...

New study finds dinosaurs weren’t declining before asteroid impact; a biased fossil record misled decades of paleontology.

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially dangerous asteroids and meteors have only seriously materialized in the ...

There's no evidence of the leg's disease ... instant snapshot of the global destruction caused by the asteroid impact. The fossils help scientists understand the exact sequence of events, from ...