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

The United Nations formally adopted Asteroid Day in 2016. The decision followed a proposal from the Association of Space ...

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

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

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

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

From Mayan gods to dinosaur-killing asteroids, these are the lesser-known and crazy facts about cenotes you haven't heard ...

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Ben Garrod and Alice Roberts investigate the greatest vanishing act in the history of our planet – the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Experts suspect that the dinosaurs ...

The Chicxulub crater, located off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, is one of the most significant geological sites on Earth. It marks the catastrophic impact of a massive asteroid or ...