Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

Earth forever. See how the Chicxulub impact ended the age of dinosaurs in a matter of days.

The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...

Earth with devastating force, ending the reign of the dinosaurs and causing an apocalypse that reshaped the planet. Traveling ...

Predicting the precise path of a new asteroid or comet is a complex affair; the more observations you have, the better you ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

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Kristen Miller, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at KU’s Biodiversity Institute, analyzed the Texan fossils to ...