The Trump administration wants to significantly cut NASA’s budget next year, slashing science research funding in half, a ...

The Trump administration is planning to cut NASA's science budget nearly in half according to a budget proposal to Congress. As the Washington Post reports, NASA's Science Mission Directorate's ...

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass ...

For scientists and conservationists, knowing how species survive planetary crises can lead to more effective protection of vulnerable species.

NASA has just premiered Planetary Defenders, offering a fascinating look at the high-stakes work geared toward protecting ...

The preliminary version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, known as a “passback,” would cut the ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, which is roughly the size at which an asteroid could take out a city, or ...

Researchers examined teeth and skulls of 99 extinct crocodylomorph species and 20 living crocodylian species to reconstruct ...

The Martian moons of Deimos and Phobos still puzzle planetary scientists. But they are now sure that they aren’t gravitationally captured asteroids. New book posits that humans risk extinction ...