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 ...

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 ...

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

A 500-foot- wide space rock could inflict mass casualties across a state or a small country; those arrive every 20,000 years.

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

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

The extra column this month was spurred by the global news of the probability of an impact by asteroid 2024 YR4 in 2032 ...

Dinosaurs are displayed at the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum in Bismarck. The Earth bears geologic evidence ...

The crater, located near the Pilbara town of Marble Bar, is thought to have been created 3.47 billion years ago.

Australian scientists have identified the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater, a discovery that could transform our understanding of Earth’s early history and the origins of life ...