Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

After the asteroid smashed into Earth around 66 million years ago, it didn't take life that long to rebound, a new study ...

A new scientific study reveals that life recovered much faster than expected after the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

Earth is still collecting scars from space, and scientists are only now learning to read them properly. Newly mapped impact ...

About 66 million years ago, the fiery asteroid impact that wiped out dinosaurs - and much of life on Earth - left clues about ...

Learn how the emergence of new plankton species started life's swift recovery after the asteroid impact that killed most ...

Sixty-six million years ago, the dinosaurs had a really bad day when a colossal asteroid impact spurred their extinction. But ...

Two new studies suggest that, contrary to longstanding belief, dinosaurs were not on the decline before the Chicxulub asteroid impact. Plus, a giant infrastructure project aims to block invasive carp ...

Scientists have created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, revealing further the events that led to the devastating mass ...

One of the biggest debates in the dinosaur world is what was happening right before they went extinct. Were they already declining, or would they have thrived if not for the asteroid? Two recent ...