Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

The Pliocene epoch, which lasted from 5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago, was a consequential time in Earth's history. The ...

Their results indicated LUCA lived around 4.2 billion years ago, only about 400 million years after Earth formed. “We did not expect LUCA to be so old, within just hundreds of millions of years ...

While researchers lose sleep over the rapidly melting ice sheets in the poles, studies suggest it is how history is repeating ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would be in for, hinting at what it'd take for us to survive such a catastrophe.

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were ...

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

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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 ...

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 ...