While these “mirror cells” could have profound medical implications, a new 299-page report warns that a mirror pathogen could spell the end of life on Earth, as such a microbe would avoid our ...

The end of life on Earth has been explored from both technological and scientific perspectives, with both agreeing that the Sun will be the main player in this inevitable extinction. However ...

Some fear we’ll be buried in brimstone; others expect to be extinguished by A.I. But is there comfort to be found in our ...

It’s been a while since we’ve heard about that made-up rogue planet Nbiru, which some believed would pop-up to collide with or otherwise majorly disrupt Earth’s orbit, spelling doom for all ...

For maybe a month there would be no sign that life was about to come to an abrupt and nasty end for all living things on Earth. Then, earthquakes would start unexpectedly, alerting geologists that ...

For months I'd been on the trail of the greatest natural disaster in Earth's history. About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian ... But most life is concentrated in shallow water ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and tone of life on Earth. At the start ... and conifers. At the end of the period, about 80 million years ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape of life on Earth forever ... the impact must have spelled the cataclysmic end. For months, scientists conclude, dense clouds ...

and other key life activities lose the platform on which their existence depends. At the other end of the Earth, around the South Pole, emperor penguins are also facing enormous threats from climate ...