Much like Hollywood movies, comics often have big blockbuster events designed to pique the interest of fans and force them to open their wallets wider than usual. These stories often boast about ...

Supernovae – the Earth-shattering ‘kabooms’ – are magnificent stellar displays that provide us with a plethora of useful scientific information about many facets of the universe. They are also ...

When the interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS swept past Earth on 19 December 2025, it did so under intense global scrutiny.

Simulation showing the effect of a nuclear detonation near the surface of an asteroid. Gif: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/Gizmodo Encouraging results from a computer simulation point to the ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very ...

Earth's crust is chemically quite different to earth's interior, characterized by an abundance of relatively light elements, like silicon, oxygen and aluminum. Heavy elements, like iron, are mostly ...

Bob Berman is undeniably tickled by celestial and earthly cataclysms. “I’ll admit it,” he writes, “I’m one of those people who find this stuff fascinating. And I’m determined to create a factual ...