Literary meets planetary: Researchers propose Dante’s 14th-century depiction of Hell mirrors the physics of a massive asteroid impact, anticipating modern meteoritics by 500 years. Impact parallels: ...

A provocative new study suggests Dante’s Inferno may have secretly doubled as a giant cosmic impact scenario centuries before ...

For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been read as a moral and spiritual descent, a journey into sin, punishment, and ...

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

An artist's interpretation of life and death after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. The three hair-covered forms (left) represent species of plankton found inside the crater made by ...