An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

By a very small margin, Spinosaurus is currently thought to have been the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur, weighing in at 7.4 tonnes and 14 meters long. Other Cretaceous giants are right up ...

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

before an asteroid crashed into what is now modern day Mexico 66 million years ago, making them extinct. There are several contenders among the titanosaurs for the biggest dinosaur ever. Even the list ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Scientists use different methods to calculate size and weight so they don’t always agree, but judging by bones found, a good ...

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally ...

That proposal has so far sputtered, but Ardoino notes that China is now pushing a related initiative to circulate a ...