By Joe Phelan Yellowstone’s supervolcano last erupted 70,000 years ago. Will it erupt again anytime soon? Beneath Yellowstone National Park, a vast region of spectacular wilderness visited…
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By Ben Turner The Doomsday Clock, created 76 years ago by atomic scientists to warn against a human-made apocalypse, has moved to 90 seconds to midnight.…
By Ben Turner A “potentially hazardous” asteroid the size of a blue whale is set to zip past Earth on Friday (Aug. 12), according to NASA(opens in…
By Brandon Specktor In the dark of Sunday night and Monday morning (Aug. 7 and 8), a surprise solar storm slammed into Earth, showering our planet in a…
by Brandon Specktor In October 2020, astronomers detected an enormous, ancient explosion tearing through a galaxy several billion light-years from Earth. The blast appeared out of…
by Brandon Specktor The sun belched up a large flare of charged particles on Oct. 28, and now that electric wind is barreling toward Earth as a…
by Tom Metcalfe The mysterious Tarim mummies of China’s western Xinjiang region are relics of a unique Bronze Age culture descended from Indigenous people, and…
by Ben Turner A 3.3 foot-long (1 meter) sea scorpion prowled the seas of what is now China some 435 million years ago, using its…
by Laura Geggel In 2018, the largest active underwater eruption ever recorded birthed a giant “baby”: a skyscraper-size underwater volcano, a new study finds. Scientists…
By Laura Geggel Following a torrential summer downpour in northern Arizona, hundreds of bizarre, prehistoric-looking critters emerged from tiny eggs and began swimming around a temporary…