China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

The tropical climate of the peninsula brings breezes in from the sea, and the dinosaurs have gathered by the rocky shore to feed on the rich vegetation in the forests that surround the coastline.

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-T) extinction, scientists are still finding stunning evidence of its destruction. In 2021 ...

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 ...

An illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in what is modern-day Mexico. 34,906 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?

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 ...