When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly a third of life on the planet. But many plants survived the devastation. In ...

Two meteor showers, the Southern delta Aquarids and the alpha Capricornids, will peak simultaneously from July 30-31. The Perseids, considered the best meteor shower of the year, will peak between ...

Early birds are in for a celestial treat this week as activity from the Eta Aquariid meteor shower heats up — but they’ll need to keep sharp eyes on the sky. The shower will peak between Tuesday and ...

When the dinosaur-killing meteor hit Earth 66 million years ago, many flowering plants transformed into "hopeful monsters" to endure the resulting environmental crisis. Now, new research suggests that ...

Many New Yorkers likely looked up to the sky this week in hopes of seeing the flashing lights of meteors as the Lyrids shower reached its most active state of 2026. The Lyrids meteor shower, which ...

ST. LOUIS – A bright fireball meteor lit up the night sky and streaked past the St. Louis region Wednesday evening with locals reporting multiple sightings. According to the International Meteor ...

The Moon 'So much magic': Artemis II shares first images from the far side of the moon, including new 'Earthset' and total eclipse in space Cosmology Largest-ever 3D map of the universe shows 47 ...

"Over the past thousand years, the asteroid has passed through a particularly intense swarm that has profoundly altered the chemical properties of its surface." When you purchase through links on our ...

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We've had good reasons to look up at the skies lately: the pink moon last month, the launch and splashdown of the Orion spacecraft, which carried humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 ...

A long-standing mystery in southern Africa’s fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million years ago seemed to erase evidence of dinosaurs in the region, scientists have ...