A chilling new assessment suggests our planet is hurtling towards an unprecedented loss of life, with human activity squarely ...

The Chicxulub crater, located off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, is one of the most significant geological ...

The aftereffects of the collision resulted in the extinction of an estimated 75% of animal species, including most dinosaurs except for birds. But practically nothing of the asteroid itself remains.

Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

A massive asteroid, expected to be larger than San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, will pass close to Earth on June 5.

including the dinosaurs, and ushering the end of the Cretaceous period have long been debated. However, the most widely accepted theory for the mass extinction is that an asteroid (or, perhaps a ...

“Dinosaurs were probably not inevitably doomed to extinction at the end of the Mesozoic,” Chiarenza said. “If it weren’t for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with ...

then shrank until the asteroid strike wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs. This trend was even more pronounced in the 6 million years before the mass extinction, with the number of fossils from all ...

“Dinosaurs were probably not inevitably doomed to extinction at the end of the Mesozoic. If it weren’t for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with mammals, lizards, and their ...

While we often think about the impact of life on land, such as the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, the asteroid strike also had a severe impact on life in the sea. "We know that the asteroid ...