A comet about 6 miles wide in diameter that was discovered more than 150 years ago will be observable from Earth this summer.
A remarkable fossil forest reveals dinosaurs may have helped spread fruit-bearing plants tens of millions of years earlier ...
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A speculative paper argues that ancient planetary flybys may have helped trigger some of Earth’s mass extinctions.
If you keep up with where the next SpaceX or Blue Origin rocket is headed, you are probably familiar with NASA’s Double ...
Herbivorous dinosaurs, rather than just post-extinction mammals, were likely the universe's first major fruit-eaters and seed ...
Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 has a close encounter with a peanut-shaped asteroid, Torifune. Credit: JAXA / The University of ...
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New Zealand’s well-documented fossil and living marine fauna allows scientists to explore drivers of extinction risk that are ...
The fossil record has historically included few fish for about 10 million years after the mass extinction event 65 million ...
When the rock now known as the Chicxulub impactor plummeted from outer space and slammed into the Earth 66 million years ago, ...
Ancient asteroid impacts may have done more than reshape Earth's surface—they could have helped spark life itself. New computer models show the collisions created enormous underground hydrothermal ...