Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially ...

Dante's description of the fall of Lucifer to Earth from heaven seems to sport many of the hallmarks of an impact, forming a ...

A week after the asteroid impact, rotting vegetation, smoke and sulphur create a stinky planet. Plant and animal survivors ...

For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been read as a moral and spiritual descent, a journey into sin, punishment, and ...

Literary meets planetary: Researchers propose Dante’s 14th-century depiction of Hell mirrors the physics of a massive asteroid impact, anticipating modern meteoritics by 500 years. Impact parallels: ...

An ancient impact may have scattered material from deep inside the moon toward NASA's planned Artemis landing sites near the ...

BEIJING -- Using lunar samples collected by the Chang'e 6 mission, Chinese scientists have discovered a significant shift in ...

Asteroid impact theory: A new study argues Dante’s depiction of Satan’s fall mirrors the physics of a catastrophic asteroid strike reshaping Earth. Literature meets science: Timothy Burberry’s ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to ...

A one ton space rock exploded over Texas before fragments fell to the ground, with one piece smashing into a home.

Atari made it look so simple: press a few buttons to move, rotate, vanish through hyperspace, fire missiles, and boom: total ...

More than four billion years ago, something enormous slammed into the moon hard enough ...