For decades, the prevailing theory behind the mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has pointed to a ...

It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

James Turrell discusses his ongoing land art piece, Roden Crater, created within a pit formed by an extinct volcano in the Arizona desert. ART21: Where are we, right now? TURRELL: Well, right now ...

Skin ulcers are crater-like, open wounds on the skin. Ulcers are roughly circular with a raw center. They often have thick and raised outer borders and may leak clear fluid, blood, or pus. Skin ulcers ...

The Earth formed around 4.5 billion years ago and was mostly water, but meteorite and asteroid impacts were uncommon before 2.5 billion years ago. Credits: envato elements; Evidence of shatter cones, ...

On a spring day some 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid smashed down just north of what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. This sudden impact created tsunamis stretching one mile ...

The rim of the crater produced by the impact ... About 65 million years ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth in the Gulf of Mexico off the Yucatan Peninsula and caused a calamity so devastating ...