Life thrived in the impact crater for 8 million years, far longer than previous studies suggested.

Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision ...

Scientists say the high heat created by the collision, could have helped life on the planet for around eight million years.

Hydrothermal vents are among the strangest ecosystems on Earth: eerie places where the planet’s deep heat and chemicals ...

The asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also created an underground environment suited to supporting new ...

Darkness, not cold or acidification, was the main driver of marine extinctions after the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

Palaeontologist Prof Steve Brusatte joins science correspondent Nicola Davis to trace the evolution of our feathered friends from their dinosaur origins ...

A team of international researchers has uncovered new evidence that the Chicxulub meteorite impact, ...

Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the devastating asteroid impact 66 million years ago. The songbirds you see today ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs appear to have been thriving before a giant asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, paleontologists working in New Mexico said Thursday in the journal Science. Experts have long debated ...

Stranger still, sometimes short-lived versions of these ecosystems form when asteroids slam into Earth—including the space ...