NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently made a final observation of asteroid 2024 YR4 before it drifted out of range. This rare data update refined the asteroid’s projected path and revealed a ...

NASA refined asteroid 2024 YR4's path, raising chances of a lunar impact in 2032. The asteroid no longer poses a significant threat to Earth, experts confirmed after new observations. NASA will ...

The curious minds at What If reveal what would happen if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck today. Maddow Blog | ...

Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...

If you're an animal living through a mass extinction, it's best to be one that's found a unique way to make a living.A new analysis of the species ...

Study by UChicago, Smithsonian, UK Natural History Museum challenges assumptions about survival after global catastrophe ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid thought to be around 12 kilometers ... the planet and leading to the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, among other species. That's a pretty big impact ...

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-T) extinction, scientists are still finding stunning evidence of its destruction. In 2021 ...

In 1980, the first paper to suggest that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs came out, under the pleasingly dramatic title "Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction". The paper ...

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...