When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

D: Iron in the ocean (from the ocean circulation, from the impactor itself, and from erosion), along with nutrients (like ...

A new study claims that the dino-killing asteroid believed to have completely wiped out the dinosaurs may have also caused a global tsunami that reset all oceanic sediment records at the time.

Why Trust Us? Everyone knows of the asteroid that spelled the end of all non-avian dinosaurs—the Chicxulub impactor—but a new study shows that a second sizable asteroid might’ve smacked into ...

The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for its role in dinosaur extinction ... Earth around the same time as Chicxulub. This new study suggests that the Nadir asteroid, although smaller ...

during the infancy of the solar system when asteroid strikes were far more common. The meteorite, designated S2, is about 200 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing impactor named Chicxulub.

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

Among other things, the study proved that the crater was, in fact, the result of an asteroid impact and that it took place around the same time as the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs ...

Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby Chicxulub Pueblo. After this unusually large impact crater was confirmed, it ...

The most striking illustration of the destructive power of space rocks on Earth is the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and about ... “This study suggests that such impacts might have ...

It was 50 to 200 times the size of the dinosaur-killing asteroid. It boiled the oceans ... scientist at Harvard University who led the study, said in a statement. "But what this study is ...

The impact occurred around 3.3 billion years ago, during the infancy of the solar system when asteroid strikes were far more common. The meteorite, designated S2, is about 200 times bigger than the ...