For decades, the scientific community has largely agreed that amassive asteroid impact 66 million years ago led to the mass ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10–15 kilometers in diameter, struck the Yucatán ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is closely monitoring an asteroid that will pass Earth on 21 January 2025.

(Henry Sharpe) (CN) — An international team of paleontologists and ecologists hope their study, published Wednesday in Science Advances, will resolve the ongoing debate on the dinosaurs’ status before ...

This apocalyptic object, the Chicxulub impactor, slammed into the sea just off the coast of modern-day Mexico. From it, shock ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10-15 kilometer in diameter, struck the Yucatán ...

It’s the oldest known fossil tied to a modern bird group that survived the asteroid strike that wiped out all the non-avian dinosaurs. Not long after its discovery in the 1860s, the species was ...

"it's not completely unusual for asteroids to be near the Earth," Gallagher said. "Our moon is about a quarter million miles ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 656 and 1,443 feet across, and will pass at 16 times the distance to the moon.

This asteroid, which measures between 65 to 147 feet in diameter, will zoom past our planet at a distance of 18 lakh kilometres. Moving at a brisk pace of 22,400 kilometres per hour, its closest ...

The massive asteroid Alinda has made its closest approach to Earth in decades and is set to reach peak brightness in a rare ...