University of Texas Arlington provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Right now, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. As just one of all the living creatures on Earth, ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

You’ve no doubt seen this kind of news headline: “Astronomers Say Space Rock May Hit Earth in the Not-Too-Distant Future!” We usually get such warnings about one or two objects every year; the latest ...