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

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

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

Everyone knows of the asteroid that spelled the end of all non-avian dinosaurs—the Chicxulub impactor—but a new study shows ...

Scientists now say that's almost precisely what happened to the dinosaurs, on a much bigger scale: the asteroid that hit ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...

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

Scientists have discovered new evidence that it wasn't just one asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

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