When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

Rock layers deposited before and after the major dinosaur extinction event 65 million years ago are surprisingly different.

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In 2029, asteroid Apophis will skim safely past Earth, where it will be visible to billions. For scientists, it's a once-in-a ...

Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson talks to Brian Lee Crowley, the managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, ...

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

We know the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era and the woolly mammoths of the ice age. But what about the millions of years in ...

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including ...

Changes in rock formations from before and after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago may reflect how dinosaurs ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...