Artistic depiction of a potential asteroid impact. Sometime before the end of the decade, a Chinese spacecraft could race toward a small asteroid at roughly nine kilometres per second (about 20,000 ...

Amid extreme heat, Earth records its coldest temperature. Credit: The Weather Network. In the darkness of the Antarctic winter, the thermometer at Concordia Station dropped to minus 84.1 degrees ...

Refugee camps for people displaced by Boko Haram conflict. Image credits: EU / Flickr. A trench surrounding a Nigerian military base stopped motorcycle-riding militants from getting inside. So, ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The Aral Sea sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was once the fourth-largest inland body of water on ...

Mars as viewed by Psyche as it continued its mission through the solar system. Credit: NASA. At first, Mars was little more than a curved blade of light suspended in darkness. As NASA’s Psyche ...

Before modern weapons of mass destruction, there was Greek fire (ignis graecus). This was the term medieval Crusaders applied ...

Humans have cleared forests for thousands of years. Modern deforestation, however, has pushed the world’s forests dramatically out of balance. About 10.9 million hectares of forest (an area roughly ...

To date, this is the only known example of a Classic Maya mathematician directly credited for their work. Image courtesy of ...

Its edge was unusually rounded, enough to make Andrew Birley pause as he knelt inside the remains of a Roman barracks in ...

The asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs erased nearly all traces of itself. It struck Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, vaporized on contact and scattered its remains around the ...