Enter the heads-up and off-world reality of the nonprofit B612 Foundation, which takes its name from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ...

The discovery that amino acids can form in more ways than we thought is another boost to the search for life beyond Earth. If ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a 6 mile wide asteroid slammed into Earth and erased more than 75% of life on Earth in a geological instant. The catastrophe that ended the age of Tyrannosaurus and ...

How cool would it be to see a real life T-Rex? If only that one fatal asteroid never hit Earth.

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

The John J. McCarthy Observatory - run by volunteers on the grounds of New Milford High School - has been watching the night sky for 25 years.

They figured this out by looking at the asteroid’s mass and the energy that would be released if it struck the moon’s surface, called kinetic energy. This impact would cause a magnitude five ...

Nuclear and climate scientists are gathering today to update the Doomsday Clock, revealing how close the world is to man-made global disaster. As if the world wasn't worrying enough already, there's a ...

For more than a century, dinosaur footprints have been both a gift and a headache. They’re some of the most direct evidence we have of animals moving through real landscapes, but they’re also ...