The cataclysmic asteroid Chicxulub hit the Earth with a catastrophic impact, it obliterated the biggest and heaviest living ...

The city-size asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs to extinction came from a steep angle, maximizing the amount of climate-changing gases unleashed into the ...

Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

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The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

International Asteroid Day is observed to help people understand how dangerous it could be if an asteroid ever hit the Earth.

Starlink satellites are at risk if a “city killer” asteroid crashes into the Moon, experts have warned. The European Space ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the ...

Massive Asteroid Could Hit the Moon, Here's How It Would Impact Earth The asteroid, dubbed YR4, was first discovered in December 2024. Miguel A. Melendez Jun 20, 2025 5:34 PM EDT ...