When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after ...

A single asteroid hit the Yucatán Peninsula with more power than a billion nuclear bombs. The result? The end of the age of dinosaurs. Discover how the Chicxulub impact caused chaos across the planet, ...

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

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid thought to be around 12 kilometers (7.4 miles) in diameter impacted the Earth, forming a crater 200 kilometers (120 miles) in diameter, and 1 kilometer (0.62 ...

A small, secretive group of lizards that still exists today may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the vicinity of the Chicxulub asteroid collision, which led to the ...