The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

Earth will have a close shave with two asteroids - Apophis and Asteroid YR4 2024. In 2029, 99942 Apophis will fly by at an eerily close distance and will be visible even to the naked eye. In 2032, YR4 ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% ...

Read What are asteroids?Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun just like planets do. In fact, sometimes asteroids are ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

Even after 20 million years of evolutionary separation, two tiny worm species show astonishingly similar patterns in how they turn genes on and off. Scientists mapped every cell s activity during ...

From 1964 to 1973, the U.S. secretly dropped at least 2.5 million tons of ordnance on Laos during 580,000 bombing missions, making it the most bombed country per capita in history.

A new study confirms White Sands footprints are over 21,000 years old, reshaping the timeline of early human presence in North America.. Credit: US Geological Service / Public domain A new study ...

A container of bones at the Natural History Museum of Utah that sat in storage for 20 years has now led to the discovery of an extinct “monster,” in the latest reminder that museum collections ...