Scientists investigating the asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs after slamming into the Earth 66 million years ago have released a new study suggesting that it formed "beyond the orbit of Jupiter." The ...

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

An illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in what is modern-day Mexico. The asteroid responsible for our last mass extinction 66 million years ago — wiping out ...

New research released Friday captures a fossilized snapshot of the day nearly 66 million years ago when an asteroid smacked Earth, fire rained from the sky and the ground shook far worse than any ...

The American Museum of Natural History is opening a sweeping new exhibition, "Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs," on ...

Over the past few generations, the world has experienced countless devastating natural disasters; but few are as sudden and ...

(CNN) — It’s a long-standing debate in paleontology: Were dinosaurs thriving when an asteroid hit Earth one fateful spring day 66 million years ago, or were they already on their way out, and the ...

Sixty five million years ago, a massive asteroid crashed into Earth and ended the age of the dinosaurs. But what if that ...

In 2005, the United States Congress laid out a clear mandate: To protect our civilization and perhaps our very species, by 2020, the nation should be able to detect, track, catalog, and characterize ...

The fish were found with hot glass in their gills, likely from flaming debris. The discovery of a fossilized fish may offer a glimpse into the day an asteroid hit the earth and wiped dinosaurs off the ...

Artist's interpretation of the asteroid impact. The asteroid in the artwork appears much larger than the six-mile rock that scientists hypothesize actually struck the Earth 66 million years ago.