Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...

Earth is no stranger to mass extinction events – it’s had five so far, and some scientists have even claimed we’re in the ...

When a giant asteroid hit Earth around 66 million years ago, it created a massive disaster that wiped out the dinosaurs. But somehow, many mammals survived, and scientists have some ideas why. Unlike ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

Scientists have discovered that ants began farming fungi 66 million years ago, right after an asteroid impact created ideal conditions for this agricultural practice. This ant-fungal partnership ...

Larger asteroids, which could cause widespread destruction, hit Earth much less frequently, approximately once every 100 million years. For example, the asteroid Bennu has a 1-in-1,750 chance of ...

New research led by entomologist Ted Schultz from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History traces this practice back 66 million years, right after the asteroid that wiped out the ...

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So far, across 39 states where Catalist has data for both years, voters ages 65 and older make up ... from 39% four years ago. More than a million early and mail votes have been cast there.