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.

A timeline-driven account based on rock-core drilling and global sediment layers: the initial fireball, tsunami and shock ...

A massive landslide would have dammed the Colorado River, forming a deep lake that has since dried up. A meteorite impact ...

What are the odds of drilling a two-inch hole and hitting a 67.5-million-year-old dinosaur bone over 760 feet below a museum parking lot? Statistically speaking, it’s nearly impossible. As Denver ...

DENVER — Museums are full of treasures untold, even in the most unlikely of places, like a parking lot.

A Denver museum known for its dinosaur displays has made a fossil bone discovery closer to home than anyone ever expected, ...

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

By Katherine Hafner/WHRO About 35 million years ago, Hampton Roads was underwater, with the coastline dozens of miles west toward Richmond. Dinosaurs were long gone, but the ocean teemed with ...

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“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this probability was still slowly rising as the asteroid faded out of view ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the ...