A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

Researchers have confirmed the discovery of a massive asteroid strike that created a conspicuous crater in southern China’s ...

For years, scientists thought dinosaurs were already declining before an asteroid wiped them out 66 million years ago. But ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

We know who’s playing the Fab Four in Sam Mendes’s quartet of biopics, and we know (more or less) who’s playing their partners. But who's playing Bob Dylan? Or George Martin?

Astronomers can usually spot "planet killer" asteroids long before they approach Earth. But what if they can't?

If such ‘twilight’ asteroids approach Earth, "they could pose serious impact hazards," warned the astronomer behind the ...

New evidence has emerged that dinosaurs in North America were thriving, and not in decline, before the asteroid hit.

Dinosaurs weren’t dying out before the asteroid hit—they were thriving in vibrant, diverse habitats across North America.

Of all the mysteries surrounding dinosaurs, none has sparked more debate than how their era ended—was it a gradual decline or ...

Fossil evidence from New Mexico shows dinosaurs were still strong, diverse, and thriving before their sudden extinction 66 ...

Visualize the catastrophic effects of a massive asteroid impact on Earth. How a DNA test solved a medical mystery – and ...