The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

The next big space threat isn't to Earth. It's to the Moon.

Dangeti Jahnavi, an IASP alumna from India, is set to embark on a historic 2029 journey to the Titan Orbital Port Space ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, though not an Earth threat, now poses a collision risk to the Moon. Scientists estimate a 4.3% chance of ...

Legendary Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart, astronomer Scott Manley and acclaimed author Mary Robinette Kowal, known for ...

Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the quahogs, cockles and their relatives – a scene far different from that of ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid that acts like a comet.

They can tell us about the vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. Marine fossils and rock fragments found in southeastern Missouri appear to have been deposited there by a massive ...

It can tell us about vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. Pollen grains are far more than allergens — they are also nature’s time capsules, preserving clues about Earth’s past ...

WASHINGTON — A House hearing about how NASA is dealing with the threat posed by asteroid impacts turned into a discussion about a very different threat: the impact of proposed NASA budget cuts ...

The hypothesized semi-enclosed environment created by post-impact hydrothermal activity. Credit: Sato et al. About 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Earth and wiped out the ...