Around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck near what is now Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and triggered a global ...

The story of the dinosaur extinction gets retold so often that it starts to feel like settled trivia: a rock falls from the ...

Almost 66 million years ago, an asteroid hit Earth – and changed our planet forever. From tsunamis to shockwaves, join us on ...

Scientists are still reconstructing the event from tiny chemical traces.

A continuous Argentine sediment record shows that after the K–Pg extinction, opportunistic foraminifera dominated the ocean ...

A team of international researchers has uncovered new evidence that the Chicxulub meteorite impact, long known for causing the extinction of the dinosaurs, also created an underground environment that ...

The fossilized feather exposed on the surface of the fossilized dinosaur poop. Image credits: O’Connor et al./Current Biology ...

A meteorite far larger than the one linked to the dinosaurs struck Earth 3.26 billion years ago, yet the devastation may have briefly created better conditions for some of the planet’s earliest ...

Poor insulation from primitive feathers may explain why some ancient birds went extinct after the asteroid impact ...

Ants branched into thousands of new species after the dinosaurs died, and a new study links that burst to jumping genes in ...

An asteroid with the potential to trigger a catastrophic event will pass Earth at an alarmingly close distance, prompting NASA to classify the space rock as "hazardous". The asteroid, named Apophis ...