Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of ...

The infamous and deadly asteroid that slammed into Earth some 66 million years ago and wiped out an entire species of dinosaurs has its origin in our solar system, beyond Jupiter to be precise.

along with asteroid-specific minerals like iridium at the crater in Chicxulub, Mexico -- all but proving the asteroid theory. And now scientists have figured out where this dinosaur-killing rock ...

Rare Metal The metal iridium, which is similar to platinum ... these quartz crystals could only have been caused by a massive asteroid or comet impact. The pattern is prevalent in quartz found ...

Scientists can readily detect this Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg or K-P) mass extinction in the geological record thanks to a thin layer of pale stone enriched in iridium, a chemical element released ...

Rare Metal The metal iridium, which is similar to platinum ... Although geologists generally acknowledge that a comet or asteroid impact would cause these fractures, some scientists conclude ...