New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution's catastrophe response speed.

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As more and more satellite megaconstellations continue to be launched into Earth orbit, some researchers are beginning to calculate the chances that people on the surface could be struck by the ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

More than 100 people witnessed a fireball shooting through the sky late Tuesday night in at least five different states in ...

An airplane-sized asteroid labeled 2026 BJ8 is racing toward Earth at roughly 50,000 kilometers per hour, but NASA’s tracking shows it will pass at a safe distance. Rather than a disaster warning, the ...