The asteroid is believed to have been 20 times larger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The ...

The threat of an asteroid devastating Earth may be greater than you think, writes K. Ward Cummings. How much should we worry ...

A NEW 20ft long, three tonnes giant armoured dinosaur species has been discovered - and left scientists baffled. A team of ...

Where that asteroid or comet came from ... co-author of the study. “The fate of the dinosaurs and many other species was sealed by this projectile from the outer reaches of the solar system.” ...

Researchers discovered a 3.26-billion-year-old asteroid impact acted as 'giant fertilizer bomb,' aiding early microbial life.

The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for its role in dinosaur extinction, but new findings suggest it might have been part of a duo. A second asteroid impact might have occurred around the ...

A new study published Thursday in the academic journal Science suggests the asteroid which killed the dinosaurs has a more distant origin than previously thought. The research, headed by a team of ...

Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Excavations in North Dakota reveal fossils of fish and ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape of ... According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly, the impact must have spelled the cataclysmic ...

The dinosaur-killing space rock that slammed into the earth some 65 million years ago is thought to have been responsible for much of the iridium found here today, and it’s a key ingredient in a ...

A study mapping how dinosaurs spread across the world shows they may have been a victim of their own success. UK researchers believe they were already in decline before the killer asteroid hit ...