Narrated by the soothing voice of the Oscar-winning Morgan Freeman, this four-part natural history series is brought to us by Industrial Light & Magic, employing the finest in next-generation CGI ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

The catastrophic impact of an asteroid 66 million years ago brought death and devastation on Earth—but also fascinating new life.

A new study challenges the long-held belief that Earth’s water was delivered by meteorites during the early history of the solar system. Researchers examining lunar samples say only a small fraction ...

New research shows marine life evolved within 2,000 years after the dinosaur killing asteroid impact 66 million years ago. Winter storm drone footage shows frozen scenes from Texas to New York Jarrett ...

This piece is part of a special project on deep time examining what the Western U.S. was like thousands, millions and even billions of years ago, and how that history is still visible and ...

An AI-driven study using a massive global fossil dataset shows the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species A groundbreaking new study using advanced ...

I perched on the edge of disaster. Oddly enough, I wanted to laugh, perhaps in a strange effort to reduce the planet’s best preserved meteor impact crater to some human frame of reference. I thought ...