Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico ...
With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...
A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.
The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...
The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...
The gigantic cataclysm, which released energy 130 times more powerful than the detonation of the entire world’s atomic ...
A new climate modeling study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics ...
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...