NASA has announced that asteroid 2024 YL7, a 94-foot-wide space rock, will pass Earth on 4 January. Travelling at an incredible speed of 16,266 mph, this asteroid’s close approach highlights the ...

After stage separation, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fist-stage booster landed on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean.

A gigantic asteroid, comparable in size to an airplane, is racing toward Earth at a speed of 26,177 km/h. Named 2024 YL7, ...

The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

Volcanic activity in India altered the climate but didn't kill the dinosaurs; the Chicxulub meteorite did, by triggering an ...

Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season instead brought mass death and carnage from Earth's catastrophic impact with a ...

Nov. 20, 2024 — Wings may be the obvious choice when studying the connection between dinosaurs and birds, but a pair of paleontologists prefer drumsticks. That part of the leg, they say ...

They’ve lived through the ice age, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and brushed off an atomic blast just a mile away ...

Fungus-farming ants, fossilized footprints and a prehistoric critter named after a Muppet are just a few of the year’s most ...

Discover why scientists now believe volcanic eruptions did not play a role in the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.

Earth briefly hosted a 33-foot object, 2024 PT5, as a mini-moon. Scientists suggest it might be lunar debris from an ancient ...

For many, the matter is settled – and there’s a huge crater down in Mexico to act as evidence. However, a minority of experts ...