Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

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

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 dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and unexposed late Cretaceous rock layers mean they're either not preserved or ...

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less diverse ...

The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from that time rather than a genuine ...

The massive asteroid that brought about the end of the reign of the dinosaurs when it crashed into Earth 66m years ago was not a one-off, researchers say. Detailed scans of an underwater crater 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 ...

A recently published study has shed more light on the cataclysm that ended the dinosaur era. Data from the research can also help scientists learn more about ...

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs came from beyond Jupiter, a new study suggests.