New dating has revealed that New Mexico's last dinosaurs were healthy, diverse and thriving at the end of the Cretaceous ...

Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

Carnegie Science astronomer Scott S. Sheppard discovered the asteroid on September 27 with the Dark Energy Camera on the ...

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

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...

The Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction, occurring approximately 66 million years ago, represents one of the most dramatic biotic crises in Earth’s history. It is marked by the abrupt disappearance ...

Creatures that had ruled the planet for more than 170 million years — from the gigantic sauropods that shook the ground to the fearsome tyrannosaurs — disappeared forever. However, this is not a story ...

A large asteroid (~12 km in diameter) hit Earth 66 million years ago, likely causing the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Credit: Southwest Research Institute/Don Davis A large asteroid (~12 km in ...

In Australia, geophysicists working for a gold prospecting company have unearthed a massive impact crater, estimated to be about 100 million years old. Spanning several ...

The claim that the world's biggest impact crater is in Mexico was false. The video does not show the world's biggest impact crater or even a crater in Mexico; it's a video of a volcanic crater, ...