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

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

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

A supernova is a dramatic event in which a star violently explodes towards the end of its life cycle. In a striking image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the supernova explosion of a star ...

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.

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

Trees and grasses will combust; the impact will create a massive crater ... of the 6-mile-wide asteroid that 65 million years ago caused the extinction of not only the dinosaurs but 75% of ...

"The only way you can form those in natural rocks is from a large meteorite impact." Dating of rock layers above and below ... "It would be near the diameter of the impact that resulted in the ...