Scientists have found that after the asteroid wiped out many plants, ants started farming fungi to help them survive and get ...

The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...

Detailed images of the 66-million-year-old Nadir Crater offer new insights into catastrophic asteroid impacts, showing ...

Scientists have revealed images of a second massive asteroid impact called Nadir Crater buried 300 meters under the ocean ...

Research highlights how the meteor impact that ended the dinosaurs helped spawn the mutualistic relationship between ants and ...

The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...

Humans began farming thousands of years ago, but a new study co-authored by two LSU professors says ants had us beat by ...