Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

"Megaripples" in the seafloor that were created in the aftermath of the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact extend much farther ...

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

Dinosaur tracks fossilised on the ground on ... Previous studies have found that the nearly 10km-wide asteroid that slammed into the water near what is now Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula triggered ...

The extinction of the dinosaurs was most probably caused by an asteroid hitting the Earth - but what would have happened if the giant space rock had missed? For a long time it was thought that ...

Kids of all ages (and I include adults here) are fascinated by dinosaurs that break records for the biggest, the longest, the ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...