A Tohoku University-led team said it has found in Hokkaido a layer showing the asteroid impact linked to the dinosaur ...

The discovery of traces of an asteroid in Hokkaido is the first-ever confirmation of such traces in Japan, according to the ...

A team of Japanese researchers has discovered traces of an asteroid collision in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido that may have caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretace ...

A great Tyrannosaurus rex strides through the conifer trees of her territory, sniffing the air. She picks up the scent from ...

Experts have revealed how the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs sparked a hellish apocalypse of supersonic winds, acid rain ...

The meteor that made that made the dinosaurs go extinct could have made a tsunami much bigger, and much more devastating, than it was.

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Long before telescopes revealed an unruly Solar System, Dante Alighieri imagined something terrible falling from the heavens. In his 14th-century Inferno, the falling object was Lucifer, the Lord of ...

A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...

"Over the past thousand years, the asteroid has passed through a particularly intense swarm that has profoundly altered the chemical properties of its surface." When you purchase through links on our ...

This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a ...