The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

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A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

Scientists believe a crater found in the Australian outback may be the oldest-known meteor crash site in the world. As AFP ...

This discovery confirms that modern bird traits existed before the asteroid impact, meaning some birds had already evolved the physical features necessary for survival. For decades, scientists debated ...

Occasionally, candidates like the building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4 ... The remnant of the impact, a ring of ancient crustal rocks rarely seen on the surface elsewhere, was designated a UNESCO World ...

The new analysis, published Tuesday in the journal Current Biology, adds to a growing body of evidence that the dinosaurs were doing just fine before the asteroid’s deadly impact. However ...

An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...

A new study challenges the idea that they were already weakened before the devastating impact. The study is based on a meticulous ... with an in-depth geological analysis of excavation sites. They ...

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site ...