How does this tie into the theory that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs? As the theory goes, a 6-mile-wide meteor plunged into Earth near modern-day Chicxulub on the Yucatan peninsula. The impact ...

In How to Kill an Asteroid, Robin George Andrews looks at the successes and shortcomings of planetary defense.

The analysis of hundreds of fossilized droppings (plus a little bit of petrified vomit) from roughly 230 million years ago ...

Where that asteroid or comet came from ... according to a widely accepted theory. It was Earth’s most recent mass extinction event. The dust particles that blocked the sun eventually settled ...

The mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs was triggered by a massive asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago. But what triggered the asteroid? Harvard physicist Lisa Randall ...

This study just provides a bit more context to the theory of how dinosaurs died. When the asteroid hit Earth, it not only would have sent shockwaves through the planet. It also would have ...

Coincidentally -- or not, that is around the time the dinosaurs died out ... (not just in Italy), was the result of a giant asteroid that hit Earth, sending smoke, dust, and iridium into the ...

The mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs was triggered by a massive asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago. But what triggered the asteroid? Harvard physicist Lisa Randall ...

Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that ... helping to develop the impact theory for the demise of the dinosaurs. The Alvarez pair identified ...

Several species of horned dinosaurs were discovered in the monument. Their skulls adorn one wall of the Big Water exhibit. (Allie Weintraub/CNS) (CN) — A new study published Thursday in the academic ...