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If a large asteroid strikes Earth, it has the potential to release an enormous amount of energy, leading to local or even global catastrophes. The strike that led to the […]
“Should they strike, each of them has an energy at impact equal to all of the nuclear weapons on Earth combined.”
The lush biodiversity of South America’s rainforests is rooted in one of the most cataclysmic events that ever struck Earth.
Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?
Scientists have known blobs existed for a long time, but how they have behaved over Earth’s history has been an open question.
We should not expect aliens to look anything like us. Creatures that resemble octopuses or birds or even robots are legitimate possibilities.
Shocked city dwellers who stared at it were blinded instantly, then the entire city caught fire.
A rare titanosaur embryo was discovered with its skull preserved in 3 dimensions.
Skilled hunters adapted to the changing landscape and left tantalizing clues to who they were.
And the one step we can take to show extraterrestrials we’re figuring it out. Every year, Earth’s meteor showers accomplish two important tasks. This composite photograph shows a large number of […]
In 2022, the probe will crash into an asteroid while a nearby satellite captures it on camera.
In 2017, a kilonova sent light and gravitational waves across the Universe. Here on Earth, there was a 1.7 second signal arrival delay. Why?
Ultimately, this is a fight between a giant reptile and a giant primate.
A recent analysis of a 76-million-year-old Centrosaurus apertus fibula confirmed that dinosaurs suffered from cancer, too.
Our research on a Martian meteorite provides new clues about early surface conditions on the red planet.
Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we’ll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.
“You dream about these kinds of moments when you’re a kid,” said lead paleontologist David Schmidt.
A new study reveals what caused most life on Earth to die out during the end-Permian extinction, also known as the Great Dying.
To the ancient Greeks, exotic animals were proof of mythological creatures. To the ancient Romans, they were oddities and adversaries.
For billions of years on Earth, life was limited to simple unicellular, non-differentiated organisms. In a mere flash, that changed forever.
Each year in mid-August, Earth plows through the debris stream of an enormous comet, creating the Perseids. 2023’s show will be magnificent!
Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?
Until recently, we were only able to view Venus’s surface with radar or by landing on the planet. It was believed that Venus’s surface was entirely obscured by clouds; NASA’s Parker Solar Probe proved otherwise.
When facing a predator, single cells sometimes unite to defend themselves, paving the way for more complex multicellular life forms to evolve.
Whether or not life exists elsewhere in the Universe, we can be assured of one thing: We are the only human beings in the cosmos.
Fossils depicting animals in action are very rare.
Technologically, the answer is definitely no. But that doesn’t mean CGI is always used to good effect.
60% of all potentially dangerous asteroids remain undetected.
These Jurassic predators resorted to cannibalism when hit with hard times, according to a deliciously rare discovery.