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

What if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck Earth today? This video explores the potential consequences of such an ...

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

A new study of dinosaur biodiversity challenges the belief that the megafauna were on their way out 66 million years ago ...

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, ...

Scientists have studied the so-called Chicxulub impact for decades but only on millennia timescales. For the first time, researchers have zeroed in on when the asteroid or comet walloped Earth, and ...

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, ...

New dating techniques at a fossil site in New Mexico attempt to dispel the theory that dinosaurs were already in decline ...

Researchers from the Center for Astrophysics theorize that a comet, not an asteroid, is to blame for killing off the dinosaurs on Earth. In a press release, researchers said the Chicxulub impactor ...

Cancer cells can be targeted and destroyed with the metal from the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, according to new research by an international collaboration between the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck Earth around 66 million years ago was huge — around 7 ...