Nearly one million years ago, humanity came perilously close to disappearing. A new study reveals that our ancestors may have been reduced to just 1,280 individuals, leaving the human race on the ...

Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the dinosaurs. This phase of active volcanism took place in a period just before ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said, "The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet, and eventually, ...

A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "Life oasis" for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis ...

1998 was a banner year for disaster films involving large celestial bodies set to collide with planet Earth. Supposedly more scientifically accurate than its more financially successful counterpart, ...