THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The ...

Astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study an asteroid that has a small chance of ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...

For decades, the scientific community has largely agreed that amassive asteroid impact 66 million years ago led to the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, triggering a global ‘impact winter.’ The theory ...

But keep in mind that Bennu is much smaller than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, and it is extremely unlikely that it would crash into our planet. Nevertheless, to prepare for potentially ...

(Henry Sharpe) (CN) — An international team of paleontologists and ecologists hope their study, published Wednesday in Science Advances, will resolve the ongoing debate on the dinosaurs’ status before ...

Are humans the only species to drive another to extinction? Tom Ruppel | Dixon, California ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape of ... According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly, the impact must have spelled the cataclysmic ...