Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Impact Set the World on Fire
Forest wildfires ignited thousands of kilometers from the impact zone of the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs, researchers have…
Forest wildfires ignited thousands of kilometers from the impact zone of the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs, researchers have…
An ancient clay tablet housed at the British Museum has puzzled experts for more than 150 years. The Cuneiform tablet…
Researchers have found that around 13,000 years ago, unprecedented volcanic activity caused the climate on Earth to cool down drastically,…
Around 3,000 BC, an ancient Sumerian astronomer was observing the sky as he usually would. While he was making observations,…
New research attributes the absence of debris from the asteroid that may have caused the large 1908 explosion over Tunguska…
What are the odds that a meteorite will strike a person standing on Earth? If you ask Tulane University environmental…
The Japanese national Space Agency (JAXA) made its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft—in orbit around Ryugu—bomb the asteroid orbiting the sun at around…
A group of researchers has discovered conclusive evidence of a cosmic impact that most likely destroyed one of the earliest…
About 2.2 billion years ago, a massive space rock collided against our planet, leaving a gigantic scar. Around 200 million…
Some 13,000 years ago, a massive comet fragmented and impacted Earth, changing the planet in more ways than one. The…
Some 12,8000 years ago, when relatively developed ancient cultures already populated the Earth, our planet went through a kind of…
Asteroid Ryugu, formally identified as 162173 Ryugu, provisional designation 1999 JU3, is a potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo Group. The…
Exploring the solar system is a massive feat for humankind. But we are good at it. In fact, we seem…
Earth is thought to have been born due to repeated asteroid collisions, and Earth’s faithful satellite, the moon, is believed…
Technosignatures: Clues to Alien Life When it comes to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), it’s not enough to aim…
Placental mammals, an evolutionary group including human ancestors, dogs, and bats, are now confirmed to have walked the Earth alongside…
Pterosaurs, the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight, ruled the Mesozoic skies long before birds took to the air. They…
Scientists have found evidence of what exactly may have destroyed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The cause of the…
On June 17, 1908, in the sky over a sparsely populated area of the taiga, near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River,…
There are many famous cases of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) in the last few decades, but we all wonder when…
Astronomers have found a strange, humongous, deep-mass structure beneath the largest crater in our solar system; the Moon’s South Pole…
Ancient Cave Paintings Revealed as Star Maps Ancient paintings previously thought to have been prehistoric animal symbols have recently been…