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 ...

An asteroid, 2024 YR4, once considered a potential Earth threat, now poses a 3.8% chance of hitting the Moon in 2032. Initially, NASA flagged a small possibility of Earth impact, but refined ...

The extinction of dinosaurs remains one of the greatest topics in natural history. A new study challenges the idea that they were already weakened before the devastating impact. The study is based on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dinosaurs were thriving before the asteroid hit Fossil and Climate data show no signs of decline Catastrophic impact caused abrupt mass extinction ...

Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27, 2024, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). It immediately drew attention because early calculations showed it ...

Astronomers have constructed a 3D representation of the asteroid 2024 YR4, which could be one of the biggest objects to impact the Moon next decade. Using observations from the Gemini South Telescope ...

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 ...

Among the 8,000 fossil records examined, Ceratopsians, including horned dinosaurs like Triceratops, were the most common, which may indicate a thriving population prior to the asteroid impact.