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 ...

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

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

Right now, a spacecraft named Psyche is headed to its namesake asteroid, 16 Psyche. The theory is that 16 Psyche, which lies ...

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

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

Nuclear war is much more unpredictable than asteroids, but, unlike the dinosaurs of 66 million years ago, humans can avoid ...

Dante’s iconic 14th-century poem may have been inspired by asteroid impact - Researcher says Satan’s impact in Dante’s ...

For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been treated as theology, political commentary and medieval literature folded ...

When atmospheric chemists Paul Crutzen and John Birks added smoke into their computer models of nuclear war scenarios, they ...