Asteroid impacts with global consequences are vastly rarer, especially compared to the frequency with which they appear in ...

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no ...

For a long time, the end of the Ice Age felt like a slow fading rather than a sharp break. Mammoths vanished. Old ways of living disappeared. The climate lurched colder again, without much warning.

While Earth was famously hit by a meteor that killed off the dinosaurs, many others have also hit our planet, many of them leaving huge scars in their wake.

Dartrey (8/11), Rogue Rebellion (5/1), The Tunguska Event (15/2), Tafah (10/1), Mereside Princess (12/1), Al Najashi (12/1), Maynora (14/1), Tickettothestars (28/1), Mademoiselle Belle (33/1) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Modern science has transformed how we study the past, allowing researchers to extract DNA from ancient bones, map buried cities ...