One rock, as big as a football field, careening through space on an elliptical orbit that lasts four years, suddenly found itself one of the most observed bodies in our solar system, according to NASA ...

When a city-size asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the dinosaurs — and sent a monster tsunami rippling around the planet, according to new research. The asteroid, about ...

About 35 million years ago, Hampton Roads was underwater, with the coastline dozens of miles west toward Richmond. Dinosaurs were long gone, but the ocean teemed with marine creatures such as ancient ...

An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes Around 35 million years ago, a small asteroid ...

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 ...

Forty-three million years ago, a 160-meter-diameter asteroid hit the area now occupied by the North Sea, releasing a 30-story-high tsunami and digging a buried crater beneath 700 meters of sediment ...