The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...

Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...

66 million years ago, an asteroid hit the Gulf of Mexico, causing mass extinction and wiping out around 60% of Earth’s species, including all non-avian dinosaurs. Palaeontologist Prof.

The threat of an asteroid devastating Earth may be greater than you think, writes K. Ward Cummings. How much should we worry ...

Thanks to the surprisingly rapid progress of private, commercial rocket companies, Jan Bosch sees humanity becoming an ...

The Ramses mission will rendezvous with Apophis in February 2029, two months before its closest approach to Earth on Friday, ...

The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for its role in dinosaur extinction, but new findings suggest it might have been part of a duo. A second asteroid impact might have occurred around the ...

The way the dinosaurs relinquished their long dominance is well known. An asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ...

Most are small, only 10 metres across, but the largest are hundreds of kilometres across, larger than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. The asteroid belt contains 1-2 million asteroids ...