Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...

Learn more about how this hydrothermal system may have provided life on Earth with vital nutrients after the dino-killing ...

Researchers from the University of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution and London’s Natural History Museum analysed fossil ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site created by the six-mile-wide asteroid, geologists have found compelling evidence that life soon thrived in the basin following the ...

Climatic and ecological consequences Responses to dust injections of 400 million tonnes from a Bennu-type asteroid impact: spatial changes in surface temperature, total precipitation, percentage ...

Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...

China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission ...

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...