Mark Witton, 2025. The Chicxulub impactor smashed into Earth, wiped out around 75 percent of our planet’s animals and ended the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago. The only dinosaur ...

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would ...

A local fossil hunter found animal vomit at a Danish geological site that is believed to be 66 million years old.

It's the last week before Christmas and not a creature is stirring, not even a mouse model bred to exhibit characteristics of ADHD for in vivo studies of central nervous system stimulants.

The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres in diameter. The collision was devastating: rocks from deep within Earth’s crust were raised 25 kilometres ...

Seventy-five percent of life on Earth was obliterated after the asteroid impact at Chicxulub, which took place 66 million years ago. Until now, scientists have proposed various theories about the ...

Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying ...

An asteroid doesn't need to be massive to cause serious damage. The Chicxulub asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 6 miles in diameter. That may sound like a ...