The ultra-powerful James Webb Space Telescope will launch soon. Once it's deployed, and in position at the Earth-Sun Lagrange Point…
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Humanity can have a love/hate relationship with itself, but there's no denying that we're the pinnacle of evolution on Earth…
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Venus' surface is no stranger to volcanoes. Radar images show more than 1,000 volcanic structures on the planet. But for…
It seems almost certain that an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs. But only almost. Another competing theory won't completely…
200 million years ago, a mass extinction event wiped out about 76% of all species on Earth—both terrestrial and marine.…
Which camp are you in: volcanoes? Or asteroids? When it comes to the extinction of the dinosaurs, science has whittled…
A surtseyan eruption is a volcanic eruption in shallow water. It's named after the island Surtsey, off the coast of…