In the NASA plan to deal with a killer asteroid destroying the world, the first people to learn ... SEE ALSO: Meteorite impact zone in Australia may be the largest ever discovered There's a ...

An asteroid is hurtling ... Could this mean the end of the world? Well, not quite. But Professor Davis says it would be no insignificant impact either. "So it's a serious-sized object.

(INTERNATIONAL) — We’ve been following reports of an asteroid that scientists said was going to make impact with Earth in ...

Amassive asteroid impact is likely to blame for the extinction event that marks the end of the Cretaceous period, according to a study published today (January 17) in Science. Researchers led by ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the ... causing an “impact winter” that lasted ...

For years, big budget science fiction flicks have shown us highly stylized end-of-the-world scenarios involving ... as they simulate a full-scale asteroid impact scenario. The idea is to test ...

but these “Planetary Defenders” are real-life scientists in Tucson and elsewhere who are working to save the world from a major asteroid impact. NASA debuted an original documentary on ...

Specifically, a drop in the availability of dinosaur fossils from the years leading up to the asteroid has led some scientists to believe the giants were doomed regardless of the impact.

A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences examined thousands of fossils. They found fewer accessible rocks from ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of years prior to the dinosaur-extinguishing asteroid impact. The study ...