The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...

Scientists now say that's almost precisely what happened to the dinosaurs, on a much bigger scale: the asteroid that hit ...

The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with ...

The end of non-avian dinosaur’s time on Earth is often depicted as one big, knockout blow delivered by the cataclysmic ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is actively monitoring three asteroids making close approaches to Earth on 13 October ...

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on ...

A large asteroid, approximately 1,300 feet wide, is set to approach Earth on October 12. Known as 363027 (1998 ST27), it will ...

But experts say the asteroid was an important milestone in planetary defense research. Though there are hundreds of moons in our solar system, our planet only has one. And while thousands of ...

New research shows that ants have been farming fungi for 66 million years — thanks in part to the asteroid that fueled the ...

Ants started farming 66 million years ago in the aftermath of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, a new study suggests ...

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ...