Ceres is the largest 'asteroid' in our solar system, big enough that it's actually classified as a dwarf planet, like Pluto.

The asteroid 66 million years ago that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs hit at a 60-degree angle — ensuring maximum death and destruction.

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

Maybe that black cat that crossed your path wasn’t so bad after all. For the dinosaurs, an extinction-causing asteroid derailed what seemed to be a pretty good run. “It’s all just bad luck,” said New ...

When a huge asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, clouds of dust from pulverised rocks blocked out the sun for 15 years. This dust may have been the primary driver of the mass extinction that saw ...

Dust might have been responsible for the deadly dinosaur-killing global winter that came after an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, finds a study published on 30 October in Nature ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Earth near what is now Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The collision created the famous Chicxulub crater, and likely killed off the dinosaurs and ...

Scientists think Earth may have undergone at least two extreme freeze events throughout its history, becoming a so-called “snowball Earth” with a surface covered by ice. What triggered these events is ...

The study offers the most recent data that challenges the long-held belief among paleontologists that dinosaur populations were declining globally prior to the asteroid impact.