Scientists have discovered that microbial life colonised the Lappajarvi impact crater in Finland shortly after a massive ...

With such a harsh environment, 75% of Earth's species could not survive, including the dinosaurs that had dominated the ...

The fear of an asteroid collision sometimes haunts our imagination, especially after the cataclysmic event that eradicated ...

An asteroid the size of a skyscraper is approaching Earth at a sprightly 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to us in two days' time. The space rock—dubbed "2025 FA22"—is a sizeable 520 ...

Using uranium-lead dating, researchers calculated the age of the eggs, rather than the sediments around them, at the ...

How did the ostrich cross the ocean? It may sound like a joke, but scientists have long been puzzled by how the family of ...

Curtin researchers have helped uncover evidence of a mysterious giant asteroid impact, hidden not in a crater but in tiny ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

Definitively dating the age of a clutch of fossil dinosaur eggs at a famous site in China may let scientists link eggshell features to environmental shifts at the time.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Asteroid 2025 QV5 was first spotted on Aug. 24. It will reach its minimum distance to us on Sept.

Researchers continue to build on a body of evidence for a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded over Earth almost ...