New study finds dinosaurs weren’t declining before asteroid impact; a biased fossil record misled decades of paleontology.

Not far from College Station, Texas, we saw an echo of the event that, 66 million years ago, radically changed life on Earth.

They’re different than “meteoroids” (space rocks outside the Earth’s atmosphere) and “meteors” (space rocks passing through Earth’s atmosphere, typically as the result of a meteor shower, which are ...

66 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth, leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs and many other species. The impact, which created the Chicxulub Crater in present-day Mexico, was a ...

Seismic waves pass through different geological features at different speeds. This map shows seismic speed in the Earth’s crust at 200 kilometers depth across the continental United States and ...

Every year, in late April, Earth passes through a stream of debris from the ancient comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher, which has caused the Lyrid meteor shower on our planet for more than 2,700 years.

NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in 2021, is currently exploring Jezero Crater, the site of one such ancient lake. During the Noachian, a powerful river emptied into this region ...

(NEXSTAR) — Residents of North America are in for a treat as the annual Lyrid meteor shower has returned, giving stargazers a chance to see shooting stars across the night sky, and it looks like ...

(NEXSTAR) — Residents of North America are in for a treat as the annual Lyrid meteor shower has returned, giving stargazers a chance to see shooting stars across the night sky. The Lyrid meteor shower ...

This forecast map by AccuWeather shows which parts of the U.S. are expected to have the best viewing conditions for the Lyrid meteor shower on Monday night. AccuWeather According to AccuWeather's ...

Why it's incredible: The landscape looks crumpled and folded from above. Iran's folded rocks are rugged mountain ridges and valleys to the southwest of the Caspian Sea. They are an extension of ...