In my book, education, physical fitness, passing a background check, having the proper training, moral character, passing medical and psychological examinations and having a good driving record, are ...

To save ourselves from a killer asteroid, first we have to find it. A spacecraft now under construction at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in may be our best hope. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor is a ...

A rare fossil unearthed in Mongolia's Gobi Desert has led to the identification of a new dinosaur species Duonychus ...

It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

The spring equinox on March 20 marks the start of spring and the astrological new year as the sun enters Aries.

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went extinct around 66 million ...