A new simulation model shows Earth's evolution over the past 100 million years in a very detailed manner. The sun sets behind artist Luke Jerram's 'Floating Earth' at Pennington Flash on November 22, ...

A physicist has mounted one of the most detailed technical challenges yet against the idea that our universe is a computer ...

Described as a "knowledge collider," and now with a pledge of one billion euros from the European Union, the Living Earth Simulator is a new big data and supercomputing project that will attempt to ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Researchers simulated temperature trends and tectonic plate movement to monitor their impact on mammals.

Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by NASA's DART spacecraft 11 seconds before the impact that shifted its path through space, in the first test of asteroid deflection. (Johns Hopkins University ...

Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...

Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the Earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole region.