nondestructive testing of parts and equipment destined for space. The scans provide Carnegie Museum experts with detailed cross-section images of the skull. of the skull’s fragility, it will not be ...

A menacing asteroid, some six miles wide, triggered Earth's last mass extinction. Now, scientists have found where it originated. It was "a projectile originating at the outskirts of the solar system ...

As humans, we're motivated by curiosity and a desire to know more. While our solar system is about 4.5 billion years old, modern humans have only been around for about 200,000 years. And scientists ...

When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after ...

Somewhere out there, lurking in the vastness of space, a rock may be on a slow, silent path to Earth. If it’s big enough and hits just right, the aftermath could be apocalyptic — think firestorms, ...

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People love the dinosaurs outside the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. So apparently does NASA. On the same day the dinosaurs at the intersection of 30th and North Illinois streets were seen ...

Cuban scientists are striving to save the manjuari, a prehistoric fish species, from extinction in the Zapata Swamp.

That day is the center of “Impact: The End of the Age of the Dinosaurs,” a new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. “There’s no doubt — well, arguably at least — that ...

Scientists have uncovered the "genetic fingerprint" of the dinosaur-killing Chicxulub impactor, potentially revealing the fateful rock's origins in the outer reaches of our solar system. When you ...

More than 100 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed Maryland. So did our ancestors — small mammals the size of squirrels or badgers — and the flying reptiles know as pterosaurs. Amazingly, the ...

Global cooperation is, unsurprisingly for a threat that comes from the stars, essential. Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Note: The Earth, Sun and asteroids are depicted as representations, not ...