The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect Earth from the threat of an asteroid impact. By smashing a ...

In the quest to understand the fundamental forces of nature, scientists have turned their attention to a long-debated theory: ...

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

As a gently comedic tale of 1950s corporate espionage, “The Phoenician Scheme” features a collection of vaguely defined ...

The camps are free and designed to empower area youths, particularly girls but also some boys, to develop leadership skills ...

The Phoenician Scheme‘ centers on sin and redemption, the frail but fundamental hope that anyone can be saved, if they sincerely repent.

Friday the 13th is a famously unlucky date. Even though some people dismiss it, these horrible events happened on this day ...

A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to ...

Planetary boundaries outline how far past pre-industrial conditions Earth can get before anthropogenic activity has ...

Scientists at the Field Museum can now get a glimpse of 4.5 billion years into the past. This is because the museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of a pristine asteroid. The little black ...