A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

Asteroids have struck Earth occasionally over its long history, often with cataclysmic results. An asteroid estimated at 6-9 ...

Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.

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In this extract from the documentary Persians: A History of Iran, we look at the Ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil - a man-made mountain palace created 3,000 years ago by the Elamites in Iran. Watch the ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the ...

Optimism…is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.” – Voltaire, Candide You, Governor Polis, ...