Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

A Texas biotech company is trying to bring mammoths and other extinct creatures back to life. The science is as intriguing as ...

Scientists uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil—a rare type of natural glass forged in the aftermath of meteorite ...

Scientists have uncovered minuscule fossils in Colorado’s Denver Basin, hinting at the southward spread of early primates after the dinosaur extinction. These tiny fossils challenge long-held ...

The end-Permian extinction 252 million years ago wiped out over 80 per cent of marine species, but many ecosystems still had ...

The tiny remnant belongs to Purgatorius, one of the earliest known relatives of all primates, including humans, which first emerged about 66 million years ago – living alongside dinosaurs before they ...

Helium-3 dating reveals new plankton species emerged within thousands—and sometimes just 2,000—years after the dinosaur-killing impact, showing life recovered far faster than assumed.

This meant subjecting microbes to minimum pressures equivalent to ten times those of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of ...

Microbes blasted off a planet by an asteroid strike may survive the journey to another world, including Earth, according to a ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

A fossil that would fit on a baby’s fingertip has revealed fresh clues about the evolution of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans. Remains of the now extinct shrew-sized ...