The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula.

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

A new study challenges the belief that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact that ended their reign. Analysing ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

The most significant asteroid so far to hit Earth was 66 million years ago. The mountain-size asteroid struck South America ...

As if we did not already have enough to worry about, astronomers recently discovered an asteroid that may hit the Earth. Based on observations of its orbit, Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

A new museum at Rowan University in southern New Jersey—an area of considerable paleontological significance—offers a ...

In my book, education, physical fitness, passing a background check, having the proper training, moral character, passing medical and psychological examinations and having a good driving record, are ...

To save ourselves from a killer asteroid, first we have to find it ... when a rock 7.5 miles wide smashed into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula. The impact incinerated everything in the vicinity ...

It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it through the extinction event 66 million years ago may surprise you.