You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. A team of researchers think they know the origin of a massive space rock that hit Earth and killed off almost all the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was a turning point in the history of life on Earth. An asteroid an estimated 6-9 miles (10-15 km) wide slammed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, ...

The extinction of the dinosaurs has been a hotly debated topic for decades, and whether it was an asteroid, a volcanic eruption or even poisonous plant species. But researchers have found hard ...

When the Chicxulub asteroid slammed into Earth, it set off a chain of planet-wide devastation. New research suggests we should blame Jupiter. Reading time 3 minutes Around 66 million years ago, a rock ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in what is modern-day Mexico. The asteroid ...

Today is World Asteroid Day. It was on a fine June 30th morning like this in 1908, something really dramatic happened on planet Earth. A big patch of forest on the banks of Tunguska river in Russia ...

In 2005, the United States Congress laid out a clear mandate: To protect our civilization and perhaps our very species, by 2020, the nation should be able to detect, track, catalog, and characterize ...

Astronomers have found a comet-like object they believe was created by the collision of two asteroids, possible siblings of the rogue rock blamed for killing the dinosaurs millions of years ago. The ...