The fishing port of Kesennuma, Japan, in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake in 2011 Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles…
For decades, geoscientists looked beneath the Earth’s surface as if peering through frosted glass. Today, a revolution in…
Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision…
Illustration of the Chicxulub asteroid impact, which took place 66 million years ago MARK GARLICK/Science Photo Library/Getty Images…

Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of…
A study claims that the North Pole Dome crater in Western Australia was caused by an asteroid strike…