Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

Nearly Half of Popular Tropical Plant Group Related to Birds-of-Paradise and Bananas Are Threatened With Extinction Mar. 7, 2025 — A new analysis reveals that nearly half of the genus Heliconia ...

Looy had told me that the Black Triangle was the best place today to see what the world would have looked like after the Permian extinction ... wide) crater left by an asteroid more than three ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

An ancient impact structure in remote northern Australia was recently spotted by one of NASA's Earth-observing satellite ...

Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was ...