Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

For decades, the scientific community has largely agreed that amassive asteroid impact 66 million years ago led to the mass ...

How exactly these extinct creatures had sex has proved something of a mystery - but now an expert sheds light on this most prehistoric of intercourse.

Mass extinctions are very important to how life evolved on Earth. For example, when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, the resulting dinosaur extinction led mammals to... Researchers ...

This field focuses on protecting Earth from asteroid impacts by studying space rocks near our planet and figuring out ways to avoid or deflect dangerous ones. Keeping an eye on these objects helps ...

On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid, designated 2018 CN41. First ...

Advanced observatories, such as the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, are designed to spot these fellow travelers, which are typically visible for only weeks or months.

by a telescope in South Africa that is part of the University of Hawai’i’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). Kareta’s team followed up with observations using the Lowell ...