For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been read as a moral and spiritual descent, a journey into sin, punishment, and ...

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

Approximately 145 million: That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators ...

Scientists have confirmed a massive impact crater, Nadir Crater, hidden beneath the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa using ...

Pollen, algae, insects, radiolarians – each unique microfossil holds clues to how Earth has changed over millions of years.

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

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will transform our view of the cosmos like never before. The science behind it is under threat - ANALYSIS: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help answer some of ...

For more than three decades, a small tyrannosaur skull sat at the center of one of paleontology’s most stubborn arguments.

Over the course of its 4.5-billion-year history, the Earth has witnessed its fair share of terrible ...

Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially ...

A provocative new study suggests Dante’s Inferno may have secretly doubled as a giant cosmic impact scenario centuries before ...