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To serve its growing group of Antarctic travelers, Silversea Cruises is building a 150-room luxury hotel in Puerto Williams, ...

Cataclysmic cosmic collisions may have benefited the evolution of primitive organisms early in Earth's history, a study says.

These people are rebuilding homes lost to wildfires in the western US – only this time they are using a material that they ...

A huge meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and boiled the oceans, ...

Every now and again, though, something larger gets drawn into Earth's gravitational field — and when this happens, it usually ...

The oriental hornet shows no ill effects – or behavioural changes – when it spends a week drinking an 80 per cent alcohol ...

With the help of advanced imaging cameras and software, astronomers are finally able to track even smaller incoming impactors ...

The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that ...