Scientists are uncovering signs that Earth has been hit by powerful cosmic blasts that leave little trace on the surface yet unleash extraordinary heat and pressure.

Costumed racers trotted through a course in Henrico, Virginia, for the annual Richmond T-Rex Run on 16. Video filmed by Dave ...

The exact moment when Earth’s most catastrophic mass extinction ended the dinosaurs’ reign 65 million years ago has remained ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

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Martin ended up leading the Nets with 26 points for game after shooting 7-of-14 from the field and 5-of-7 from three. The ...

About the extinction of the dinosaurs, there are different theories. However, the most accredited is that their end was caused by the impact of a large asteroid 66 million years ag ...

Interstellar objects occasionally enter our Solar System, providing insight into the composition and dynamics of distant ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

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Austin feels laid-back. The small down-town area has bars and restaurants with live music of varying quality. One person does morning percussion on the sidewalk. There are quite a few self-driving ...

In the cliffsides and dried-up arroyos of Northwestern New Mexico, deposits of sandstone and mudstone contain traces of a ...