Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines for being surprisingly likely to hit Earth in the next several years. After peaking at an ...

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and ...

YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

But what if the asteroid had never struck Earth? Would the dinosaurs ... a severe setback if the asteroid had not hit. Brusatte said that if large dinosaurs had survived, the small, rodent-like ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight ... like the rock that killed the dinosaurs," Harwood said. "It wouldn't affect ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

That’s not even close to the size of the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs ... asteroid to hit our world.

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight ... like the rock that killed the dinosaurs," Harwood said. "It wouldn't affect ...

"Tiny asteroids do hit the Earth all the ... the size of the "planet-killer" asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs. That one was estimated ...