Did mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers and other Ice Age megafauna face a similar, impact-induced fate to the dinosaurs? That’s ...

The annual stocktake, which lasts around a week, is a condition of the zoo’s licence – although in reality numbers are something staff keep track of throughout the year. This year marked the zoo’s ...

For a long time, the end of the Ice Age felt like a slow fading rather than a sharp break. Mammoths vanished. Old ways of ...

New research suggests a comet explosion helped cause ice age extinctions, sudden cooling, and the loss of early human cultures.

It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...

Catch it while you can. A spectacular show is coming to the night sky, as the Quadrantids meteor shower prepares to deliver ...

But as bad as it is for the Quadrantids this year, it will be a very different story in 2028.

Until now, scientists believed that Mars’ skylights – pits in the surface of mars – were formed by volcanic activity. But ...

Although it's not as famous as August's Perseids or December's Geminids, January's Quadrantids can be just as prolific. This ...

The New York Times bestseller list brings ‘The Last Ember’ and an Aerimander, who’d been thought extinct: Top sellers for the ...

With 3I/ATLAS streaking away from our planet, speculation remains as to whether the interstellar comet is alien or not.