Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

Enter the heads-up and off-world reality of the nonprofit B612 Foundation, which takes its name from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ...

Narrated by the soothing voice of the Oscar-winning Morgan Freeman, this four-part natural history series is brought to us by Industrial Light & Magic, employing the finest in next-generation CGI ...

The latest asteroid to pass by the Earth will be back in a few years — it's not coming for us, but it may be on a collision ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

The impact dinosaurs had on Earth was so big that their extinction seems to have caused dramatic and wide-ranging changes to ...

Today is the last day to ride DINOSAUR at Disney's Animal Kingdom. The attraction opened on April 22, 1998, as Countdown to Extinction - one of the original attractions when Animal Kingdom first ...

When the Chicxulub impactor hit, the animals that had the best chance of surviving turned out to be those with wings. See how new finds are reshaping the story of how birds evolved.

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

A new study using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed that the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago caused only a modest decline in shark and ray species.