Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, ...

The curious minds at What If reveal what would happen if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck today. Thousands of veterans to march on DC over benefits cuts—"Will not stand by" Musk Is ...

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-T) extinction, scientists are still finding stunning evidence of its destruction. In 2021, ...

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 asteroid moved 24 times faster than a rifle bullet as it struck Earth some 66 million years ago. Its supersonic shock wave flattened trees across North and South America, and its heat wave ...

Reconstruction of a late Maastrichtian (~66 million years ago) palaeoenvironment in North America, where a floodplain is roamed by dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has sparked curiosity among scientists as the space object changing its behaviour. Harvard scientist Avi Loeb has suggested that 3I/ATLAS is not a comet as the object's ...