Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

Can an asteroid, or two asteroids, crash into Earth in the next seven years? Scientists are observing these space rocks to ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

International Asteroid Day is observed to help people understand how dangerous it could be if an asteroid ever hit the Earth.

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

Read What are asteroids?Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun just like planets do. In fact, sometimes asteroids are ...

During a tumultuous period for our planet around 466 million years ago, Earth was pelted with meteorites and rocked by ...

The Oort cloud has sent its biggest comet yet towards the inner solar system, and it is travelling at an insane speed, ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.

The world’s nuclear superpowers are engaged in a dangerous exercise in political brinkmanship that could spill over into the realm of a deadly atomic holocaust, as the brutal conflict between Iran and ...