About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico, forming the Chicxulub crater. This impact wiped out ...

A new study of dinosaur biodiversity challenges the belief that the megafauna were on their way out 66 million years ago ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

Recent fossil discoveries in New Mexico have provided compelling evidence that dinosaurs were thriving just before the ...

In the arid hills of northwestern New Mexico, a discovery is reshaping one of the most enduring narratives in natural history ...

Of all the mysteries surrounding dinosaurs, none has sparked more debate than how their era ended—was it a gradual decline or a sudden catastrophe? A new study led by Andrew Flynn of New Mexico State ...

What really happened around the time when the asteroid smashed into Earth 66 million years ago? Scientists may finally have ...

Astronomers have identified a skyscraper-sized asteroid, 2025 SC79, orbiting incredibly close to the Sun and at a near-record speed. This 'twilight as ...

It looks like it could have been laid yesterday. But this incredible dinosaur egg, recently unearthed in Argentina, dates ...

Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, flying at 27,000 mph (43,000 km/h), slammed directly into Earth. The impact ...

When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after ...