On the final day of the Cretaceous period, some 66 million years ago, Earth was teeming with a dazzling variety of dinosaurs.

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 ...

Scientists have created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, revealing further the events that led to the devastating mass ...

In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the real thing, ...

Space is big. Disturbingly big. And most of the time, it goes about its business without us paying much attention. But every ...

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: Sixty-six million years ago, the dinosaurs had a really bad day when a colossal asteroid impact spurred their extinction. But even though those reptilian megafauna get all the ...

Tiny mammals and a group of lizard-like reptiles shared a trait that helped them survive extinction. 66 million years ago, after an asteroid slammed into the Earth and wiped out the non-avian ...

NASA is tracking asteroid 2026 FM3, a car-sized space rock set to pass safely by Earth at a distance of 148,000 miles. Here's ...

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 ...