The history of human innovation and artistic expression isn’t as straightforward as you think. Craftspeople have created ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

A single sewing needle is tiny enough to slip through fabric unnoticed, yet physics suggests that if it somehow struck Earth at light speed, the result would look less like a pinprick and more like a ...

This year, the internet has taken great interest in 3I/ATLAS — only the third interstellar object ever detected, though also the third since 2017. (The overwhelming scientific consensus suggests ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...

The Northern Taurid meteor shower peaks from Tuesday, Nov. 11 to Wednesday, Nov. 12. Activity runs from late October through Wednesday, Dec. 10, but this window offers the best odds for the shower’s ...