Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

A 70-year-old man from Massachusetts was one of several people killed in a tragic Fourth of July firework accidents, as ...

Felton Davis offered thousands of strangers a close-up view of the Moon and planets orbiting New York City. Now he’s passing the telescope on.

I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet high and topped by a stately brick tower constructed in ...

Ian Rogers was convinced it was up to him to save America. The gun industry’s sales tactics — playing up paranoia and ...

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech ...

Fossils from Earth’s biggest extinction reveal forest collapse triggered runaway warming - offering a warning for today’s ...

This is a scientifically and historically thrilling find for both the Museum and the larger Denver community,” said Dr. James ...