The universe is home to over 2 trillion stars, galaxies, and planets, and Earth, our home, is just one small part of this vast cosmos. Our planet has witnessed the rise and fall of many life forms, ...

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

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

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

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

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

Astronomers have observed a giant comet hurtling towards the inner solar system, releasing superfast jets. It is spewing carbon monoxide from its surface at an absolutely insane speed. Comet C/2014 ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

Buried deep at North Dakota's Tanis fossil site, these fossils are helping to reconstruct the final hours of life on Earth during that tragic day 65 million years ago.

Dinosaur bones have taught us a great deal about these animals from the “age of dinosaurs”, the Mesozoic Era, which stretched from approximately 252 million years ago to 65 million years ago.

Two massive asteroid impacts 35.65 million years ago left significant craters but caused no long-term climate changes, according to a UCL study analyzing marine fossil isotopes. The findings highlight ...

Around 35.65 million years ago, two massive asteroids collided with Earth. Despite the scale of these asteroid impacts, a new study by researchers at University College London (UCL) reveals that they ...