Warnings that humanity is heading toward its own disappearance have shifted from the fringes of science fiction into mainstream research and public debate. Instead of vague prophecies, scientists now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nostradamus is back with a fresh batch of bad news. As the new year dawns, it’s time to talk doomsday, my babies — and no one ...

As the new year dawns, it’s time to talk doomsday, my babies — and no one grips us with grim quite like Nostradamus. Known as the “prophet of doom,” Nostradamus’ decidedly dark worldview was shaped by ...

Sixty-six million years ago, this asteroid crashed into Earth and wiped out most of the life on our planet. Including the biggest, baddest things that ever roamed the planet. Yeah, dinosaurs. If a ...

Was the flood real in The Great Flood’? Apparently, the flood might not have been real after all. An-na is an artificial intelligence researcher at the Darwin Center, a research organization in outer ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that is speeding towards the Earth at more than 22,600 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Measuring ...

NEW ORLEANS — There’s about a 4 percent chance that a building-sized asteroid will hit the moon in 2032. Moreover, there’s about a 1 percent chance that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, will not only ...

In 2004, astronomers spotted a planet-like object orbiting Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night sky. With further observations, however, it started to look more like a dust cloud—a ...

David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space rocks. Here’s what he has to say about that “high consequence” work, an ...

The comet originated from outside our solar system and poses no danger to our planet. NASA officials have rejected theories that the object could be an alien spaceship. While not visible to the naked ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been studying the samples since NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft carried them back to ...