Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the ...

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

The odds of an asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 now stand ... Africa, South Asia and parts of South America. That region ...

looking out for parts of the cosmic map where they can mark “here be dragons” – in this case, potentially hazardous asteroids or comets. When an asteroid (or a comet) is discovered ...

looking out for parts of the cosmic map where they can mark “here be dragons” — in this case, potentially hazardous asteroids or comets. When the asteroid’s many possible future orbits are ...

parts of Africa, the Arabian Sea and South Asia. As additional observations came in, the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth went up. Last week, the impact probability stood at 2.3% ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has been a source of alarm ... northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, parts of Africa, the Arabian Sea and South Asia. However, some possible impact locations are densely ...

One thing the collection team noticed: The material that flew off the asteroid was redder than the surface they shot at, which had a bluer tinge. Some parts of Ryugu appear almost striped – the ...