A Southwest Research Institute-led study has proposed a connection between a specific collision in the main asteroid belt and ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused a mass extinction that wiped out 75% of Earth’s animal species, including all non-avian dinosaurs. But “night” lizards survived. A new Yale study has ...

Scientists have created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, revealing further the events that led to the devastating mass ...

International Asteroid Day highlights global efforts to detect, track and deflect potentially hazardous asteroids while advancing research into the solar system's origins.

This video looks at the deadliest disasters in human and planetary history, from famines and plagues to asteroid impacts, ...

An asteroid that may be as wide as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is tall will fly safely by Earth on Thursday, June 5, 2025. Bigger than 97% of asteroids, for such a large object to come ...

Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million years ...

WACO, Texas — A new study published on Thursday, co-authored by researchers from Baylor University, New Mexico State University, the Smithsonian Institution and several international collaborators, ...

Analysts say the Torifune fly-by highlights Tokyo's growing role in global space safety efforts and its 'goodwill science' ...