I must confess, I think asteroids and I think of movies like Deep Impact or Armageddon! Scientists think that an…
Is there anything good about volcanoes? They can be violent, dangerous, and unpredictable. For modern humans, volcanoes are mostly an…
For decades scientists have believed that an asteroid impact event ended the era of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.…
Humanity can have a love/hate relationship with itself, but there's no denying that we're the pinnacle of evolution on Earth…
In this latest installment in our Fermi series, we take a look at the possibility that advanced civilizations only have…
200 million years ago, a mass extinction event wiped out about 76% of all species on Earth—both terrestrial and marine.…
A new study from John Hopkins University has shown that blowing up asteroids might be harder than we thought.
Everyone knows about the extinction of the dinosaurs. A cataclysmic asteroid strike about 66 million years ago (mya) caused the…
A new paper on supernovae and the effects on Earth increases the so-called "Supernova Kill-Zone" to 50 light years.
For decades, scientists have debated the cause of the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs and other life 65…