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 ...

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

An asteroid impact millions of years ago may have provided a natural incubator for early life on Earth, scientists say.

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

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 ...

Researchers have uncovered traces of alien space matter within an ancient impact site in South Korea, a discovery that could ...

Now, a study on lunar samples from China's Chang'e 6 mission is challenging conventional theories about this cosmic process. By analyzing tiny metal grains in lunar soil, Chinese scientists have ...

Traces of microorganisms were found in a crater in South Korea. Billions of years ago, they may have triggered the Great ...

South Korean scientists have discovered stromatolites in the Hapcheon meteorite crater, which could contribute to the ...

Nuclear power plants are safer than many suspect. But putting reactors in space is a concept with a checkered history. One ...

Three previously unknown species of rodent-like mammals that once scurried alongside dinosaurs in what is now northern Alaska ...