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 ...

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 ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

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 ...

Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...

A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...

A new scientific study reveals that life recovered much faster than expected after the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Deep in the leaf litter of Hispaniola lives a creature that defies modern evolutionary logic. The Hispaniolan solenodon ...

DINOSAUR closed on Feb. 2, 2026 in Animal Kingdom after nearly 30 years of operation. Here's what is set to replace this ...

The John J. McCarthy Observatory — run by volunteers on the grounds of New Milford High School — has been watching the night sky for 25 years.

After the asteroid smashed into Earth around 66 million years ago, it didn't take life that long to rebound, a new study ...

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