An earthquake shook Taiwan on Wednesday morning, setting off alarms in the capital, but no damage was immediately reported. The Central Weather Administration measured the...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a strange, alien world. Covered in rivers and lakes of liquid methane, icy boulders and dunes of soot-like "sand,"...

Huge plumes of ash have been sent 2.5 miles into the sky after a volcano erupted in the central Philippines. Mount Kanlaon is one of...

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1918, it was initially classified...

The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by...