About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico, forming the Chicxulub crater. This impact wiped out ...

Sixty-six million years ago, life on Earth was paid a visit by a very unwelcome guest: the Chicxulub impactor, an asteroid ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

New dating has revealed that New Mexico's last dinosaurs were healthy, diverse and thriving at the end of the Cretaceous ...

Of all the mysteries surrounding dinosaurs, none has sparked more debate than how their era ended—was it a gradual decline or ...

Unraveling the mysteries of how the world might end is fascinating and terrifying. It's a topic that sparks our imagination, ...

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

Astronomers have identified a skyscraper-sized asteroid, 2025 SC79, orbiting incredibly close to the Sun and at a near-record speed. This 'twilight as ...

What really happened around the time when the asteroid smashed into Earth 66 million years ago? Scientists may finally have ...

It looks like it could have been laid yesterday. But this incredible dinosaur egg, recently unearthed in Argentina, dates ...