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

But astronomers now say that that science is telling them the asteroid will most likely miss Earth. But our planet is not ...

These kinds of high-profile events catalyze a lot more activity in these areas, absolutely." NASA has confirmed that Apophis, the asteroid the OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft has now been sent to explore ...

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4.

New calculations suggest there is now a 2.6% chance the space rock 2024 YR4 will smack Earth in 2032, up 2.2% from the day before. The highest risk assessment an asteroid has ever received was 2.7 ...

On Feb. 18, 2025, NASA updated the probability of asteroid "2024 YR4" impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, from 2.6% to 3.1%. The European Space Agency (ESA) also updated its estimate of the ...

"After the asteroid impact, the Gulf of Mexico records an ecological recovery process that is quite different from that of the global ocean, as continuous hydrothermal activity has created a ...

The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for its role in dinosaur extinction, but new findings suggest it might have been part of a duo. A second asteroid impact might have occurred around ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

Impacts by objects around 460 feet (140 meters wide) in diameter occur every 10,000 to 20,000 years. A "dinosaur-killing" impact from a rock perhaps a half-mile across or larger happens on 100 ...

For comparison, they also analyzed samples from five other asteroid impacts from the last 541 million years, samples from ancient Archaean-age (3.5 – 3.2 billion-years-old) impact-related ...

It can tell us about vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. Pollen grains are far more than allergens — they are also nature’s time capsules, preserving clues about Earth’s past ...