In last week’s The Universe column, I fielded a reader’s question about galaxy collisions in an expanding universe. The answer deals with vast distances, inscrutable forces and the ultimate fate of ...

The new season also features fish—namely Xiphactinus, a rather terrifying ocean dweller. Looking every bit like someone gave a grouper a set of fake vampire teeth, Xiphactinus may have grown up to 20 ...

Aha! You were about to yawn and roll your eyes because this was just a list of dinosaurs, right? Wrong! The new season also features terrestrial mammals, crocodylomorphs, and—as you can see ...

Back when dinosaurs roamed the planet, Earth was hotter than it is today. Yet life not only existed but thrived. Meanwhile, humans are already struggling to deal with a relatively modest temperature ...

• Doctor Victor Von Doom is a great scientist, an unparallelled sorcerer and the ruler of his own nation. He is, by any measure, a great man. And yet Doom wants more. • And when Reed Richards – Mister ...