Contrary to popular belief, ammonites, ancient marine mollusks, survived the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains strategies to prevent a killer asteroid from hitting Earth, covering detection, deflection methods, and how science keeps our planet safe from cosmic threats.

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Clearly, Armageddon had quite an impression on Michael B. Jordan. The movie itself is nearly 30 years old, and it’s the one ...

We run down five of the best good-news science stories from 2025 – from beating ageing to uncovering the distant Universe ...

The University of Arizona's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft only made it home once in 2025, but at least it got some nice snapshots ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Avengers are the Marvel Universe’s greatest defense force, having spent decades battling the ...

In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% ...

Beehive cluster, a group of 1,000 stars, will be visible to stargazers in January. How to see it, what’s visible to naked eye ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid that's hurtling towards the Earth at more than 33,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Designated “2025 XN4, ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s soaring towards Earth at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to measure ...

David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space rocks. Here’s what he has to say about that “high consequence” work, an ...