What are some of the largest extraterrestrial impacts to effect Earth? Learn what we’ve seen in history, and what is ...

The Lyrid meteor shower is about to light up the night sky in April. Here are the peak times to watch to potentially see up to 100 an hour.

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...

An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...

Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. If you enjoy sitting outside at night, especially during these "cooler" Florida temperatures, you'll be able to see ...

Saturday will see the rise of the first full Moon of spring, known as the Pink Moon. Despite its name, it won’t be the ...

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, ...

YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

Dinosaurs may not have been declining before the asteroid impact after all – new research shows that the apparent drop in ...

Despite previous research, Earth's long-gone mega-reptiles probably weren't dying off before an impact winter did them in for ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

After taking another peek at the "city-killer" asteroid that once had a small but uncomfortable chance of smashing into our ...