Late Cretaceous dinosaurs may have cut back vegetation, creating large floodplains. When the asteroid hit, those floodplains became forests.

With a low but notable chance of hitting our moon this asteroid is in the sights of scientists. A city-block-sized asteroid named 2024 YR4 is hurtling through space, and it has our Moon in its sights.

Some 66 million years ago, a devastating asteroid strike is believed to have been behind the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.

Scientists have found proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago causing a huge tsunami and leaving a 1.9 mile (3km) wide crater under the seabed. The Silverpit Crater is ...

The impact of the North Sea asteroid caused a 328ft (100m) high tsunami of water, geologists said [BBC] Scientists have found proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago ...

JAXA's Hayabusa 2 mission to asteroid 1998 KY26 might have unexpected challenges following new data on the rock's size, spin, and structure.

What happened the day the dinosaurs died? This video explores the catastrophic events surrounding the mass extinction of dinosaurs approximately 66 million years ago. It covers significant geological ...