The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula.

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

A new study challenges the belief that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact that ended their reign. Analysing ...

The most significant asteroid so far to hit Earth was 66 million years ago. The mountain-size asteroid struck South America ...

As if we did not already have enough to worry about, astronomers recently discovered an asteroid that may hit the Earth. Based on observations of its orbit, Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

A new museum at Rowan University in southern New Jersey—an area of considerable paleontological significance—offers a ...

Scientists have finally seen what the "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 looks like. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) took a peek at the asteroid scheduled to fly by Earth and Moon at an extremely ...

The ‘city-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 will come perilously close to the Earth, and may even hit the moon in 2032, James Webb Telescope observations confirm. | Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI ...

Astronomers are closely monitoring Asteroid 2024 YR4 amid concerns that it could collide with the Moon in 2032. While the asteroid is no longer considered a significant threat to Earth ...

Economists in Mexico fear the large import taxes could plunge the already shaky Mexican economy into a recession. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her government would wait until next week ...

To save ourselves from a killer asteroid, first we have to find it ... when a rock 7.5 miles wide smashed into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula. The impact incinerated everything in the vicinity ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth in December ... NASA/Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope/New Mexico Institute of Technology/Ryan/AFP via Getty Images Unfortunately, this outcome may not be as rare ...