UC Berkeley astronomers found a hidden black hole roaming far from the galaxy’s core. It may eventually merge with the ...

Planetary boundaries outline how far past pre-industrial conditions Earth can get before anthropogenic activity has ...

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid thought to be around 12 kilometers ... the planet and leading to the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, among other species. That's a pretty big impact ...

In 1980, the first paper to suggest that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs came out, under the pleasingly dramatic title "Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction". The paper ...

It's well known that the reign of the dinosaurs came to an end when a giant asteroid smashed into Earth ... that toxic angiosperms (flowering plants) killed them off.

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 ...

Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula and triggered the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs. Now, researchers have determined that the space rock ...

Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Earth, blasted debris everywhere, plummeted the planet into cold darkness, and ended the age of dinosaurs ... So the Chicxulub impactor that ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) — An intense debate surrounding the cosmic rock that killed ... that the asteroid that triggered a mega-earthquake, precipitated a global winter and wiped out the dinosaurs ...

In brief: A massive impact is the most commonly accepted theory on what caused the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs 66 million ... that the planet was hit by an asteroid mostly made of carbon.

The asteroid responsible for our last mass ... that happened to encounter here," Tissot said. "So the one that killed the dinosaurs is really special in two ways — by what it did, and also ...