The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

As a planetary geologist, my research focuses on meteorite impact craters ... is the 200 km-diameter Chicxulub impact crater in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. This impact wiped out 65 percent ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

The Earth bears geologic evidence of past cosmic impacts, such as the 125-mile-wide Chixculub Crater in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, which was the likely impact site of the 6-mile-wide asteroid ...

For example, an asteroid estimated at 6-9 miles (10-15 km) wide - much larger than 2024 YR4 - hit off the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, eradicating about three-quarters ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

A rare fossil unearthed in Mongolia's Gobi Desert has led to the identification of a new dinosaur species Duonychus ...

To save ourselves from a killer asteroid, first we have to find it ... when a rock 7.5 miles wide smashed into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula. The impact incinerated everything in the vicinity ...