The real question, and still an open one, is whether a Taurid swarm could deliver more Tunguska-sized objects than would ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

At more than 160 million years old, a recently discovered amphibian fossil has set a new record for the earliest known ...

The meteorite struck Earth when it was still in its early years, a water world with only a few continents sticking out of the sea. In their fieldwork, Drabon said, they were looking for spherule ...

The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there ...

The behemoth coral, discovered in October in the Solomon Islands, is longer than a blue whale and older than the United States.

The world's biggest coral — an organism made up of about a billion polyps — is about three times bigger than the previous record-holder and was discovered by chance during an expedition off the ...

Only time and further exploration will reveal the full extent of its significance. Researchers announced the discovery of ...

Exclusive photos reveal a sprawling, 300-year-old coral near Solomon Islands, recently discovered by the National Geographic ...

A decade ago, a mysterious crater appeared in the Russian Arctic, forming a huge jagged hole hundreds of feet wide. Since ...