Asteroid 2026JH2 will zoom past Earth at a distance of only 90,000 kilometres next week. It has enough mass to wipe out a ...

Inferno, the iconic 14th-century poem by Dante Alighieri widely regarded as a literary masterpiece, may have been inspired by ...

Dino Parc Râșnov, the largest dinosaur park in Southeast Europe, has received official approval from Romania’s Culture ...

Against a backdrop of increased tension among the world’s major powers, the risks and effects of nuclear war have received ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a colossal asteroid, about 10km in diameter, struck Earth in the area of what is now the ...

When the world goes bad, some plants do something astonishing. They can’t run or hide, nor can they do much about changing ...

A great Tyrannosaurus rex strides through the conifer trees of her territory, sniffing the air. She picks up the scent from ...

One of the greatest works of medieval literature hides within it an accurate representation of an asteroid impact, according ...

Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially ...

Most living organisms inherit two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent, but plants frequently undergo whole-genome ...

Learn how egg size may help explain why ammonites didn’t survive the end-Cretaceous extinction 66 million years ago, while ...

Vienna - Some of the most beautiful creatures to grace the ancient seas, the ammonites, disappeared in the end-Cretaceous mass extinction that ...