New research suggests a massive asteroid impact may have caused Earth’s first great flood, releasing unimaginable amounts of ...

In January, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved an application by NCU’s Lulin Observatory for the asteroid, ...

A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences examined thousands of fossils. They found fewer accessible rocks from ...

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site ...

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 ...

It prepares comprehensive impact hazard assessments for the space agency’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office at NASA Headquarters in Washington. This is how astronomers learned about the two ...

A new study challenges the belief that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact that ended their reign. Analysing 18 million years of fossil data, researchers argue that apparent drops ...

At the very spot where so much life vanished, something extraordinary happened. A brand-new marine ecosystem sprang up, fueled by the heat and chemical changes left by the asteroid’s violent impact.

Credit: Davide Bonadonna Scientists have debated a tantalizing question for decades: Were dinosaurs already on the decline before the catastrophic asteroid impact 66 million years ago? At first glance ...

The team of researchers from the University College London found that on face value, it appears that the number of dinosaur species peaked about 75 million years ago and then declined in the nine ...