Astronomers have identified a skyscraper-sized asteroid, 2025 SC79, orbiting incredibly close to the Sun and at a near-record ...
In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically ...
After years of detective work, University geosciences professor Gerta Keller and her colleagues have found that an intensive period of volcanic eruptions and a series of asteroid impacts likely ended ...
The layer of iridium, rare on Earth but common on asteroids, suggested that a massive space rock had struck our planet 66 million years ago, triggering a mass extinction event that wiped out the ...
New research suggests that dinosaur populations were thriving in North America before the asteroid impact 66 million years ...
New research suggests that dinosaur populations were thriving in North America before the asteroid impact 66 million years ...
Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...
New dating has revealed that New Mexico's last dinosaurs were healthy, diverse and thriving at the end of the Cretaceous ...
The end of the dinosaurs was clearly linked to an asteroid impact that brought the Cretaceous period to a close. But the ...
A trove of specimens from New Mexico may help settle a long-running argument about the diversity of dinosaurs before their ...
New dating of New Mexico rocks suggest diverse dinosaurs thrived there just before the impact, countering the idea dinos were already on their way out.