In the late 1960s, a group of graduate students at MIT took on an extraordinary challenge: figuring out how to stop an ...
An asteroid strike 66 million years ago triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs, along with about three-quarters of the Earth’s animal species. A new Yale ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, is back in the spotlight — this time due to a slight increase in the chance that it could impact the moon in 2032.
Birds are today’s only living dinosaurs, but how did they survive the asteroid? Birds are the only dinosaurs still alive today, but how did they survive the asteroid? Most birds were wiped out, along ...