Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some ...

A timeline-driven account based on rock-core drilling and global sediment layers: the initial fireball, tsunami and shock ...

Earth, triggering one of the most devastating mass extinctions in history. In a single moment, life on the planet changed ...

Artist's interpretation of the asteroid impact. The asteroid in the artwork appears much larger than the six-mile rock that scientists hypothesize actually struck the Earth 66 million years ago.

Dinosaurs weren't going extinct before the asteroid strike. Richard Pallardy. Thu, May 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM UTC. ... barring a catastrophic event such as the asteroid impact. ...

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive asteroid or powerful volcanic eruptions. But now, researchers from Dartmouth ...

The new analysis, published Tuesday in the journal Current Biology, adds to a growing body of evidence that the dinosaurs were doing just fine before the asteroid’s deadly impact.

Dinosaurs may have been finished off with a killer asteroid, but new research shows that they may already have been headed for a disaster all their own.

The end-Cretaceous extinction—the massive extinction event widely attributed to an asteroid impact that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs approximately 66 million years ago—had a profound ...

Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — It’s a long-standing debate in paleontology: Were dinosaurs thriving when an asteroid hit Earth one fateful spring day 66 million years ago, or were they already on ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — It’s a long-standing debate in paleontology: Were dinosaurs thriving when an asteroid hit Earth one fateful spring day 66 ...