When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck Earth around 66 million years ago was huge — around 7 ...

The asteroid impact triggered one of the planet’s worst mass-extinction events, wiping out all dinosaurs but birds. Out of the ashes rose mammals, including ones curious enough 66 million years later ...

The end of the dinosaurs was clearly linked to an asteroid impact that brought the Cretaceous period to a close. But the details of their end have remained a matter of debate since the impact crater ...

What if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck Earth today? This video explores the potential consequences of such an ...

Fossil evidence from New Mexico shows dinosaurs were still strong, diverse, and thriving before their sudden extinction 66 ...

Cancer cells can be targeted and destroyed with the metal from the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, according to new research by an international collaboration between the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When it smashed into Earth "with the energy of about 8 billion times a World War II-era nuclear ...