Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus.

On February 2, 2026, in Niagara Falls, Canada, Arctic cold created a dramatic partial freeze at Horseshoe Falls.

Slalom, a 44-year-old North Atlantic right whale, has given birth to her seventh calf, marking the 21st calf of the season.

The impact of the asteroid 66 million years ago did not stop life from returning to normal for very long. New research shows that life, particularly marine life, recovered much more quickly than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Niagara Falls city officials are weighing whether to issue a Code Blue alert as a massive winter storm sweeping across the country ...

An AI-driven study using a massive global fossil dataset shows the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species A groundbreaking new study using advanced ...

An artist's interpretation of life and death after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. The three hair-covered forms (left) represent species of plankton found inside the crater made by ...

Hello! I'm covering Niagara County for 7 News WKBW. If you have a story idea, please email me at Derek.Heid@wkbw.com NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WKBW) — From the Niagara Scenic Parkway all the way up to the ...

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026. Image from Gianluca Masi/Virtual Telescope Project www.virtualtelescope.eu A massive near-Earth asteroid of “planet ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate far more energy than previously thought without breaking apart—a ...

In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% of all species on Earth were wiped out, including the dinosaurs. Among ...