Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

Hell Creek is one of the few places where fossils capture life just before a mass extinction The site contains remains of dinosaurs that lived during Earth’s final moments of the Cretaceous Some layer ...

How cool would it be to see a real life T-Rex? If only that one fatal asteroid never hit Earth.

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

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 ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...

Discover a quirky Illinois rock shop with a hidden fossil exhibit that feels like stepping back in time. Dinosaurs, fossils, ...

With new technology, smarter tools, and a lot of patient digging, historians and archaeologists are uncovering marvels from every corner of the world. One day it’s an enormous thigh bone from a ...

From artistic masterpieces and vintage cars to moon rock and artefacts dating back millions of years, there is a lot of see ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.