Scientists discovered Bastetodon, a 300-million-year-old predator in Egypt, revealing Africa's ancient apex carnivores before modern lions and hyenas emerged.

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In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

P rojections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of ...

That’s not even close to the size of the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs. That one was estimated to be about 6.2 ...

Can America survive this meteor shower? Maybe — if we stay focused, get organized, show up, support good candidates, write ...

Where things stand: The chances of the asteroid hitting Earth currently stand at 2.1%, or about 1 in 47, and could fall to ...

They are chunks of rock, metal or ice left over from the formation of the solar system some 4.6 billion years ago. Each night ... Dimorphos about 7 million miles away from Earth, shifting its ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Astronomers have been keeping a close eye on an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long that has a very small chance of crashing into Earth in less than eight years. And as they learn more about ...

Letters uncovered from Sir Isaac Newton in 1704 could hold the key to what the future of civilisation might look like. The ...

An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1 percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released ...