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

Carnegie Science astronomer Scott S. Sheppard discovered the asteroid on September 27 with the Dark Energy Camera on the ...

Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, flying at 27,000 mph (43,000 km/h), slammed directly into Earth. The impact ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually.

During a live broadcast on October 7, a group of paleontologists from the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences held in their ...

There are many programs that detect near-Earth asteroids as part of countries' planetary defense strategies. In the case of ...

Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...

Given the recent proliferation of artificial intelligence patent drafting technology, some in the legal services industry are ...

Arizonasaurus was an archosaur from the Middle Triassic.

Strange glass strewn across southern Australia appears to be from a mystery asteroid impact 11 million years ago.

Large meat-eating dinosaurs attained their great size through very different growth strategies, with some taking a slow and steady path and others experiencing an adolescent growth spurt, according to ...