These Lizards Mysteriously Survived the Asteroid Strike That Killed the Dinosaurs—and Their Descendants Are Still Alive Today Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have ...

Luis and Walter Alvarez wrote that an asteroid hitting the Earth created the iridium-rich layer of clay — and killed the dinosaurs. According to Berkeley Lab, this idea was controversial at first.

This year, the alert system for defending the planet against incoming space rocks was activated for the first time. It won’t be the last ...

Earlier this month, astronomers were thrilled after spotting an interstellar object — only the third of its kind ever ...

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

It's another meteoric rise for what's called the largest piece of Mars on Earth. The 54-pound rock fetched nearly $5.3 ...

NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks and preview what's coming in 2029.

After threatening our world with a three percent chance of impact, asteroid 2024 YR4 exited the scene with a four percent chance of hitting the Moon in 2032.

According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

How did cockroaches survive the asteroid that led to the extinction of dinosaurs? – Kinjal, age 11, Delhi, India ...

Since 1980, research on the dinosaurs disappearance has focused on the 125-mile crater and the 10-mile-wide asteroid believed to have created it. Dust from the impact was thought to have blocked ...