While many believe that an asteroid striking the Earth was the cause of the death of the dinosaurs, a new study suggests their death might have been a bit more tragic. While the idea of an asteroid ...

We may finally have figured out where the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs actually came from. The discovery pinpoints the impactor's origins and reveals key insights into its chemical composition, ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - It was, to put it mildly, a bad day on Earth when an asteroid smacked Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, causing a global calamity that erased ...

Scientists are continuing to learn new things about the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs—and three-quarters of Earth’s other species—66 million years ago. According to research published in the ...

A tiny fragment of the asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago may have been found encased in amber -- a discovery NASA has described as "mind-blowing." A tiny fragment of the asteroid that hit ...

The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from that time rather than a genuine ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - For awhile now the general consensus has been that an asteroid striking Earth is what killed the dinosaurs, and while that's still technically true, a new study is giving us a ...