The asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs may have been far rarer, drier and less sulfur-rich than scientists once thought ...

A space rock that smacked into Earth 66 million years ago and devastated the ancient life living thereon took a remarkably circuitous route to get here, a new study has found. And an asteroid it was ...

Earth scientists are slowly closing in on the class of impactor that caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.

The asteroid that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago probably came from the outer solar system. Geoscientists from the University of Cologne have led an international study to ...

The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new ...

The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on Earth. Vertebrate groups that dominated at the time, such as dinosaurs and ...

New dates for a long-debated New Mexico fossil site reveal that dinosaurs were thriving and regionally diverse until the end-Cretaceous asteroid strike 66 million years ago, according to a new study.

Geoscientists from the University of Cologne have led an international study to determine the origin of the huge piece of rock that hit the Earth around 66 million years ago and permanently changed ...