While dinosaurs stood no chance when a massive asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, microscopic plankton bounced back surprisingly fast. The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event devastated ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a single asteroid hit Earth in the Yucatán Peninsula and killed off the dinosaurs. The disaster was local, but its effects were planetary. How can a regional calamity have ...

Doomsday meteors get a bad rap. For decades, these poor rocks have been tarnished in the press and demonized in major Hollywood productions over the relatively limited number that have caused ...