Experts now say dinosaurs would have likely continued to dominate the planet had it not been for the asteroid.

Earth with devastating force, ending the reign of the dinosaurs and causing an apocalypse that reshaped the planet. Traveling at 72,000 km/h, the asteroid hit with the energy of billions of atomic ...

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 ...

The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

The dinosaurs' doomsday asteroid was around 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) wide and caused widespread devastation when it hit at the end of the Cretaceous period (145 million to 66 million years ago). The ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and ...

It's another meteoric rise for what's called the largest piece of Mars on Earth. The 54-pound rock fetched nearly $5.3 ...

I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 YR4. It said the probability it could hit Earth was unusually high.

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk 's plan to terraform Mars is the "stupidest thing" one can pursue, says astrophysicist and author Adam ...

Since 1980, research on the dinosaurs disappearance has focused on the 125-mile crater and the 10-mile-wide asteroid believed to have created it. Dust from the impact was thought to have blocked ...

Scientists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a 67 million-year-old dinosaur fossil hidden under their ...