While theories like overhunting and climate shifts have been debated, a recentPLOS ONE study presents compelling evidence linking a comet impact or airburst event to these dramatic changes. The Cosmic ...

NASA's search for evidence of past life on Mars just produced an exciting update. On Sept. 10, 2025, a team of scientists ...

In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of ...

After analyzing a ceramic lamp unearthed from a Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) tomb in North ­China's Shanxi Province, researchers ...

Researchers found shocked quartz indicating a comet explosion linked to megafaunal extinctions and the clovis culture's ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

After a year of scientific scrutiny, a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover has been confirmed to contain a potential biosignature. The sample is the best candidate so far to provide ...

Researchers studied samples returned by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission in 2020. The spacecraft visited the near-Earth asteroid between 2018 and 2019.