Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite ...

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...

Movies like 'Deep Impact' and 'Armageddon' are Hollywood action adventure movies which sees the world threatened by complete ...

A night lizards of the family Xantusiidae survived the giant asteroid strike that ended the reign of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago near the epicenter of the impact. Remarkably, these reptiles ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

A recent study, yet to be peer-reviewed, has revealed that asteroid YR4 smashing into our moon could have big implications ...

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

A giant asteroid could crash into the moon in 2032, potentially sending debris hurtling toward Earth, scientists have warned.

Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the Earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole region.

Santa Claus isn’t the only thing making a fly-by of Earth this week. NASA has warned that a giant asteroid the size of a 10-story building will be whizzing right past us tonight.

Giant asteroid will be visible with binoculars. Jim Beckerman. ... Asteroid 877 Alinda, 2.6 miles in width, made its nearest approach to Earth on Wednesday: 7.6 million miles distant.

One fateful day 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs — which had inhabited Earth for about 165 million years — got a nasty surprise: A roughly 9-mile-wide (15 kilometers) asteroid crashed into ...