Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to ... climate change that eventually led to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and in total about 75% of species ...

One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against ...

A doomsday scenario? NASA is tracking an asteroid that has a non-zero chance of striking Earth. We have some time to prepare, ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to ... climate change that eventually led to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and, in total, about 75% of species ...

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

NASA has warned the chance has doubled that the asteroid hurtling towards Earth will make contact. The United States space ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Lucas Atwell CC BY-SA 3.0 Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. About 66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid slammed into our planet and began a mass ...

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