The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...

Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...

THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The ...

What if 65 million years ago a meteor had not struck Earth, contributing to the extinction of the dinosaurs? In 1982, ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

How does this tie into the theory that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs? As the theory goes, a 6-mile-wide meteor plunged into Earth near modern-day Chicxulub on the Yucatan peninsula. The impact ...

Part of the debate about what really killed the dinosaurs has to do with the interplay between the asteroid impact and the Deccan Traps eruptions. The most up-to-date understanding suggests the ...

after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The feathered creature thrived during the Cretaceous period, and continued to do so even after an Earth-shattering asteroid strike 66million years ago.

But keep in mind that Bennu is much smaller than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, and it is extremely unlikely that it would crash into our planet. Nevertheless, to prepare for potentially ...

Where that asteroid or comet came from ... co-author of the study. “The fate of the dinosaurs and many other species was sealed by this projectile from the outer reaches of the solar system.” ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape of ... According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly, the impact must have spelled the cataclysmic ...