While this Route 66 attraction in Arizona flies under most passersby's radar, it offers an amazing chance to see an impact ...

New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly 90-mile-wide asteroid around 4 billion years ago. The colossal collision was likely ...

The 5.3-mile-wide crater is now confirmed to be 66 million years old, suggesting that the impact of at least two giant space rocks preceded the mass extinction of dinosaurs.

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom.. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

Paleontologist and Geologist Dr. Ken Lacovara joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about fossils. Can we ...

The cataclysmic asteroid left deposits similar to those made by other asteroids from the outer solar system. The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid: Scientists Now Believe They Know Its Origin Story - CNET X ...

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth.The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...

A massive meteor crater in northern Arizona continues to attract visitors and spark curiosity about space and science, ...

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