Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

By a very small margin, Spinosaurus is currently thought to have been the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur, ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

Some of these giant vegetarians were as tall as a 3-story building. Microscopic analysis of their teeth, bones and eggshells reveals how they grew, what they ate and even their body temperature.

A group of scientists led by Dr Daniel Whalen of the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation have ...

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

For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...

Don’t blame the astronomers for the ever-changing odds that an asteroid ... so a low probability risk of impact with a big asteroid might rate the same as a higher probability impact with ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

Very Large Telescope (VLT), reduced the asteroid's impact probability to around 0.001%, after rising to more than 3% just last week — the highest impact probability ever recorded for an asteroid ...

2024 YR4 was first spotted after it set off automated asteroid warning systems in December 2024, and astronomers have been tracking it ever since. Advert According ... making it the biggest threat to ...