In May, a human-caused wildfire raised serious ecological concerns after it burned over one-third of Santa Rosa Island — an offshore wildlife oasis in Southern California’s Channel Islands National ...

Many people remember road trips back in the day that left windshields splattered with insects – and may get the uncomfortable feeling that things have changed. Here's what researchers are finding.

As pitched by Babak Hodjat, Cognizant’s Chief AI Officer, TerraLingua is a public research platform to allow agents to operate fully autonomously over a long stretch of time, so that anyone can ...

It struck the seas off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula with the force of billions of atomic bombs, carving out the 112-mile-wide Chicxulub crater. The asteroid vaporized almost instantly.

"The biggest mass extinction of all time started from a world that is very similar to today in having a relatively cool, ...

The discovery of a 245-million-year-old marine reptile with preserved internal organs is giving scientists a rare window into ...

Based on computer simulations and geologic evidence, scientists propose that the deadly event may have caused global ...

Scientists have discovered a fossil in China of a long-necked marine reptile from 245 million years ago that is so well ...

The Chicxulub impact not only plunged Earth into an impact winter but also produced a dust blanket that later overheated the ...

New research suggests fine dust trapped heat from falling debris, producing a deadly pulse that could have ignited forests around the world.

A new study suggests the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs also created a global dust cloud that trapped heat, turning ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a roughly 10-kilometre-wide asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, ...