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

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

As their joints stiffened, they learned to fly through water. Wings became flippers. The evolution of flippers is a classic case of exaptation, a phenomenon in biology that has much to teach our own ...

Experts on meteoritics and palaeontology have created a detailed timeline to take you back to the very last day of the ...

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 week after the asteroid impact, rotting vegetation, smoke and sulphur create a stinky planet. Plant and animal survivors ...

From a musical “Reflection on America” to the start of one of the Bay Area’s best concert series, there are a lot of great ...

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 ...

Every Yucatan holiday itinerary should include warm beaches, Maya archaeological sites, and crystal-clear cenotes. But once you’ve had your fair share of salt and sun, make your way to a lesser-known, ...