The asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, jumped to the top of NASA's risk chart, with a slim but measurable chance of striking ...

Ask any dinosaurs. Oh, wait… Granted you also need a way to redirect them, but interest in finding them has picked up lately including a new privately funded program called the Asteroid Institute.

Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...

It’s long been agreed that a huge asteroid smashed into earth and wiped out the dinosaurs – but scientists have now revealed that more than one crashed into the planet. A smaller asteroid is ...

(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 ...

If you’ve seen Netflix’s hit film, Don’t Look Up, or have ever heard about how an asteroid ended the age of dinosaurs 66 million ... Meteor Organisation said no meteorites had been recovered.

Artwork: The asteroid hit what is now the Gulf ... Clearly, it made no difference for the dinosaurs, but it might have done for certain mammals, birds and plants. It could have made all the ...

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 ...

Where that asteroid or comet came from ... co-author of the study. “The fate of the dinosaurs and many other species was sealed by this projectile from the outer reaches of the solar system.” ...

Just over 66 million years ago, Earth’s fate changed dramatically with the arrival of a massive asteroid that slammed ... for the mass dying off dinosaurs and other ancient species.