A night lizards of the family Xantusiidae survived the giant asteroid strike that ended the reign of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago near the epicenter of the impact. Remarkably, these reptiles ...

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Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

YR4 may strike the moon in 2032, posing risks to satellites from lunar ejecta and possibly causing a brief meteor shower.

Remember that “city-killer” asteroid that was expected to land in Pakistan by 2032? Well, there's good news that it won't hit Pakistan, but the bad news is that it will now likely hit the Moon. The ...

The Barringer Crater America’s Best-Preserved Impact Site. ... The Vredefort Crater in South Africa is the largest known impact structure on Earth, ... Formed by a meteor around 300,000 years ago, the ...

Their paper, entitled ‘Secondary cratering on Earth: The Wyoming impact crater field,’ was published in the Geological Society of America bulletin on Friday, Feb. 11.

Researchers in Australia found the crater in Western Australia's Pilbara region and believe it's the oldest impact crater in the world, at about 3.5 billion years old. That surpasses the previous ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 is now rated at Level 0 out of 10 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, meaning, "The likelihood of a collision is zero, or is so low as to be effectively zero.". A similar ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, measuring 130 to 300 feet wide, currently has a 1.5% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. The odds of impact have decreased from initial estimates, and NASA expects them to ...

Initial projections gave the asteroid little more than a 1% chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Those odds have steadily increased since then and now stand at a record 3.1%.