Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global winter that affects our planet for years.

The timespan goes back to about 400,000 years ago when major ... 280 parts per million for 30,000 years. The CO2 levels, in turn, impacted the long interglacial periods on Earth, warm enough ...

According to Live Science, the lakes formed about 20,000 years ago because of a hotspot beneath the supercontinent of Pangaea that existed 300 million years ago. The supercontinent broke apart to ...

The subject of rapidly melting ice sheets in the extreme polar regions of Earth has been a constant concern recently in the scientific world. However, a 2023 study published in the Science journal has ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...

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

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years from Earth. The "promising" super-Earth - called HD 20794 d - may ... the ground before his parachute is deployed and ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest tools ever used on Earth, and they weren’t created by direct human ancestors ... which was a pre-human species that lived over three million years ...

New evidence reveals that Homo erectus could survive in extreme environments like deserts over 1.2 million years ago, challenging the notion that only Homo sapiens were ... Mekonnen, Wenran Zhao and ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super-Earth” located 20 light-years away that could ... who first detected the planet two years ago. Gabriel Pérez / IAC Dubbed HD 20794 ...

The study, published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment ... the world shows Homo erectus adapted at least 1.2 million years ago -- long before our species, Homo sapiens, emerged.