An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were feathered creatures that ranged in ...

Can America survive this meteor shower? Maybe — if we stay focused, get organized, show up, support good candidates, write ...

One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact ...

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size could do.

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, is currently on its close approach to our planet every six years at a distance of about 186,000 miles (299,000 km). However, scientists warn ...

The best example may be a 6-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) asteroid that crashed into Earth, killed the dinosaurs and created Chicxulub crater about 65 million years ago. The NEOWISE mission started ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover found a 'one-of-a-kind treasure' on the rim of Jezero Crater, a rock that could help reveal ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...