The incredible aftermath of the Chicxulub asteroid impact—one of the most cataclysmic events in Earth’s history—is unfolding beneath the seafloor of Louisiana. New research has uncovered massive ...

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation following the impact that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs.

The chance of being in the right place at the right time has led to a significant geological finding at Paint Hill Farm, a ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

Scientists have created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, revealing further the events that led to the devastating mass ...

NASA Is Preparing for a Fake Asteroid Impact In 2021 ... and explain that these formations vary depending on where the tsunami impacted sediments along the paleo-shelf. The results of the study ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

As the velocity of the tsunami abated, the thixotropic muds maintained ... demonstrating the effect of such a giant asteroid impact on the Earth, more study is needed to figure out the exact ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Astronomers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa discovered an asteroid in 2024 that had a small chance of colliding with the Earth in 2032. The asteroid, 2024 YR4 ...

Previous studies have found that the nearly 10km-wide asteroid that slammed into the water near what is now Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula triggered a massive tsunami unlike anything ever documented.