A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ...

An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.

Earth has a group of cosmic stalkers. Known as "co-orbitals," these small bits of rock have a 1:1 mean motion resonance with ...

Professor Barry Barish, the 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics and renowned as the “Father of Gravitational Waves” from the ...

MIT professor Susan Solomon discusses the National Academies study on the environmental impacts of nuclear war, and how it made her realize the importance of the science of rising smoke and fuel loads ...

In the center of present-day Romania, near the town of Hațeg, lies an extraordinary story—the story of a lost world, a ...

A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...

Dante’s vision of Hell may echo the physics of a massive asteroid strike, offering a new way to read the Inferno.

NASA planetary defense scientists are tracking a large potentially hazardous asteroid whose projected trajectory includes a ...

The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new ...