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An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, ...

YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

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

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A huge asteroid, 2023 KU, is on its way to hit Earth tomorrow, which is 11 April the size of a 35 storey building. It will ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

The Royal Museums Greenwich website says that there was no uniform way to figure out the date for Easter until AD 325. It ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...