Millions of years ago, a colossal asteroid slammed into Earth near modern-day Mexico, triggering one of the deadliest events ...

The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new ...

Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million years ...

Nuclear war is much more unpredictable than asteroids, but, unlike the dinosaurs of 66 million years ago, humans can avoid ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth mass extinction. You’re reading that correctly: throughout Earth’s history ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a huge asteroid famously hit the Earth, causing the extinction of dinosaurs and about half of ...

A new study suggests that duplicated genomes gave some flowering plants the genetic flexibility needed to endure Earth’s ...

A provocative new study suggests Dante’s Inferno may have secretly doubled as a giant cosmic impact scenario centuries before ...