Sixty-six million years ago, a huge asteroid famously hit the Earth, causing the extinction of dinosaurs and about half of ...

The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new ...

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 ...

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

It’s popularly believed dinosaurs went extinct after an asteroid crashed on Earth — how true is that?■ It’s not true at all ...

An asteroid is hurtling towards Earth. It's the size of the Eiffel Tower, shaped like a peanut and potentially ...

Would we suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs?

Imagine a creature so evolutionarily resilient that it strolled right alongside the Tyrannosaurus Rex 350 million years ago, survived the asteroid impact, and now comfortably rents a space under your ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin's Akita dog Yume, gifted by the northeastern Japan prefecture of Akita in 2012, died of old ...

The Indian Embassy in Moscow said it was working with local authorities and the company employing the workers to provide all ...

Earth has a flair for dramatic resets, though it usually takes millions of years to deliver them. Over its long history, life has been knocked back by volcanic eruptions, climate swings, changing seas ...