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 ...

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

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

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

Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, according to a study published in the journal Science.

"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or ...

Earth with devastating force, ending the reign of the dinosaurs and causing an apocalypse that reshaped the planet. Traveling ...

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

Learn about the mass extinction event 66 million years ago and the ... We just learned where the asteroid ... with massive outpourings of lava spewing forth between 60 and 65 million years ago.

Before 650 million years ago, a colossal series of planetwide glaciations known as Snowball Earth shaved off up to a third of Earth’s crust, including these kimberlites.

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