A massive meteor struck near Manson, Iowa, 74 million years ago, creating the U.S.'s largest impact crater and reshaping the region's geology and water quality in profound ways.

A team of international scientists will begin drilling inside the Mexican crater site where it’s believed that an asteroid impact 66 million years ago caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. The ...

A new scientific study reveals that life recovered much faster than expected after the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

(via Be Smart) A giant asteroid impact ended the age of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. How did this mass extinction play out, moment by moment? In this video we meet a geologist who has explored ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a 6 mile wide asteroid slammed into Earth and erased more than 75% of life on Earth in a geological instant. The catastrophe that ended the age of Tyrannosaurus and ...

A newly identified impact scar in southern China has turned a quiet patch of countryside into one of the most important natural laboratories on the planet. The Jinlin crater, a vast bowl gouged into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows marine life evolved within 2,000 years after the dinosaur killing asteroid impact 66 million years ago. (CREDIT ...

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may not have been the whopper scientists thought. Analysis of chemical remains of the asteroid that can still be found in sediments under the sea shows the ...

Where the space rock came from 66 million years ago that crashed and killed the dinosaurs. 66 million years ago a giant space rock crashed into our planet and killed the dinosaurs. In the span of just ...

The city-size asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs to extinction came from the northeast at a steep angle, maximizing the amount of climate-changing gases unleashed ...