Asteroid Day reminds us of space rocks' power. Some asteroids hit Earth hard. One exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

The big sky country of the western North America is a world-renowned dinosaur playground. Household-name dinosaurs like ...

Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

The city-size asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs to extinction came from a steep angle, maximizing the amount of climate-changing gases unleashed into the ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

Meteor craters are incredible reminders of the powerful forces of nature and the history of our planet. These massive impact ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Starlink satellites are at risk if a “city killer” asteroid crashes into the Moon, experts have warned. The European Space ...

Read What are asteroids?Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun just like planets do. In fact, sometimes asteroids are ...