A long-term study in a park in the Republic of Congo in Africa has shown that, surprisingly, wild chimpanzees and gorillas will seek out particular individuals of the other species to play with and ...

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 ...

Note: Adapted from a University of Colorado Boulder news release by Yvaine Ye. More than 70 million years ago, the Arctic was a lively place for some of Earth’s ancient mammals. Today, their fossil ...

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

Millions of years ago, a colossal asteroid slammed into Earth near modern-day Mexico, triggering one of the deadliest events ...

Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...

Today's Arctic may feel remote and desolate, but more than 70 million years ago, it was a surprisingly lively place for some ...

Here’s the good news: If a near-Earth object (NEO) big enough to wipe out humanity entirely is ever on a collision course with our planet, we’re likely to find out about it a good while before it ...

Newly spotted asteroid 2026 JH2, which could be up to 115 feet wide, will fly past Earth closer than some satellites on ...

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 ...

The Indian Embassy in Moscow said it was working with local authorities and the company employing the workers to provide all ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a huge asteroid famously hit the Earth, causing the extinction of dinosaurs and about half of ...