The findings suggest that mass extinctions are not always caused by a single dramatic event.

An artist's imagining of a saprotrophic fungus. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) In the wake of the ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

The meteor entered the atmosphere 40 miles above the Earth, with a force equal to 300 tons of TNT. All of this over the ...

Picture the scene: An asteroid is hurtling towards Earth. It's the size of the Eiffel Tower, shaped like a peanut and potentially hazardous — sounds scary, right? Take asteroid 2026 JH2. It was first ...

Birds have all kinds of fancy decorations for attracting mates—male peacocks have a fan of feathers accented with shimmering ...

How different would our world be if dinosaurs were alive today? The answer is: very. Prehistoric in the present? We all love Jurassic Park, but a dinosaur theme park is (thankfully) unrealistic. Still ...

When the asteroid finally reached Earth, those near the impact site would have seen a blinding fireball, heard a deafening ...

There’s a spot along the southern Oregon coast where a Tyrannosaurus rex casually hangs out in a temperate rainforest, and ...

NASA has confirmed that a bright fireball meteor exploded in the sky over New England on Saturday (May 30), releasing the equivalent energy of about 230 tons of TNT and generating a sonic boom heard ...

A viral video of a meteor darting past an erupting Philippine volcano sent the internet into an alien frenzy after an unknown ...