The second asteroid's impact site is called the Nadir crater. Rock was liquified, launching a tsunami into the Atlantic Ocean ...

What intrigues scientists is the age of the crater: it coincides with that of Chicxulub, the asteroid linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Some estimate it could be a fragment of a larger ...

In 1980, the first paper to suggest that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs came out ... it lacked a little something; an impact crater. It would take another 10 years before samples from the ...

It was 50 to 200 times the size of the dinosaur-killing asteroid. It boiled the oceans ... Scientists suspect the impact left behind a monstrous crater some 297 miles (487 kilometers) wide ...

Over 3 billion years ago the S2 impact event occurred on Earth, boiling the oceans. But in new research, scientists found it ...

Carrying sledge hammers, scientists hiked to the impact site in South Africa to chisel off chunks of rock to understand the ...

66 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth, leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs and many other species. The impact, which created the Chicxulub Crater in present-day Mexico, was a ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

This Costco location might be the most breathtaking in the world due to its natural surroundings: a beautiful cenote with a ...