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

A provocative new study suggests Dante’s Inferno may have secretly doubled as a giant cosmic impact scenario centuries before ...

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

For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been treated as theology, political commentary and medieval literature folded ...

Nuclear war is much more unpredictable than asteroids, but, unlike the dinosaurs of 66 million years ago, humans can avoid ...