For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...
What if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck Earth today? This video explores the potential consequences of such an ...
Fossil evidence from New Mexico shows dinosaurs were still strong, diverse, and thriving before their sudden extinction 66 ...
On December 27, 2024, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Chile detected something unusual. As its automated telescopes swept across the night sky, searching for traces of moving ...
In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...
After a catastrophic asteroid impact 78 million years ago, life didn't just survive—it thrived, at least according to new research that provides the first direct evidence of microbial life ...
Of all the mysteries surrounding dinosaurs, none has sparked more debate than how their era ended—was it a gradual decline or ...
A new study of dinosaur biodiversity challenges the belief that the megafauna were on their way out 66 million years ago ...
New research on fossils in New Mexico reveals that dinosaurs, including the massive Alamosaurus, were thriving just 340,000 ...
Though NASA confirms that 3I/ATLAS poses no immediate threat to Earth, its unusual trajectory and behaviour have stirred ...