About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

The most significant asteroid so far to hit Earth was 66 million years ago. The mountain-size asteroid struck South America ...

As if we did not already have enough to worry about, astronomers recently discovered an asteroid that may hit the Earth. Based on observations of its orbit, Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

For decades, the prevailing theory behind the mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has pointed to a ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it through the extinction event 66 million years ago may surprise you.

Asteroid 2014 TN17, a massive 540-foot space rock, will safely pass Earth at a distance of 5 million kilometers on March 26, 2025. However, its potentially hazardous designation stresses the ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

A city-size asteroid slammed into Earth off ... identified a 200-kilometer-wide (125-mile-wide) crater off the coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.“It was the enrichment of iridium in ...