More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

Ground telescopes have offered our best asteroid data so far, but spotting dark, tumbling rocks from Earth is like finding ...

The heaviest known dinosaur is thought to be Argentinosaurus, a supermassive titanosaur that lived during the Cretaceous period. It may have weighed up to 180,800 pounds (82,000 kilograms). An ...

Dinosaur tracks fossilised on ... the La-Sal National forest Utah (AFP via Getty Images) Previous studies have found that the nearly 10km-wide asteroid that slammed into the water near what ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

The extinction of the dinosaurs was most probably caused by an asteroid hitting the Earth - but what would have happened if the giant space rock had missed? For a long time it was thought that ...

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...