A single sewing needle is tiny enough to slip through fabric unnoticed, yet physics suggests that if it somehow struck Earth at light speed, the result would look less like a pinprick and more like a ...

NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office is responsible for finding and tracking potentially dangerous asteroids before ...

When NASA’s Artemis astronauts touch down near the moon’s south pole in the coming years, they may step into one of the ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...

Millions of years ago, a single asteroid changed everything wiping out the dinosaurs and reshaping life on Earth. But where did that world-ending rock actually go? In this collection, scientists dig ...

This 9-km wide Nadir Crater, caused due to the impact of the Asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago, rests deep beneath the ocean. The period has been linked to the time when the ...

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After an asteroid struck Finland long ago, microscopic life colonized the impact site within a few million years, new research reveals. This article was originally published at Eos. The publication ...

A new study is challenging a long-standing view of the final days of the dinosaurs. For decades, many palaeontologists believed that non-avian dinosaurs were already in decline before the asteroid ...

The Taurid meteor shower—known for its “Halloween Fireballs” that illuminate the sky from late October to early November— could hold clues to future threats from space such as airbursts and actual ...