A city-size asteroid impacted the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, creating the 200km-wide Chicxulub crater. This impact caused widespread environmental devastation, including global sunlight ...

An artist's depiction of the moment the Chicxulub asteroid struck present-day Mexico 66 million years ago. Chase Stone A space rock crashed into present-day Mexico 66 million years ago, dooming the ...

A new study has analyzed asteroid dust recently discovered in the Chicxulub asteroid crater. The findings further support the theory that the dramatic impact was the cause of the mass extinction event ...

When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after ...

A previously undiscovered asteroid crater off the coast of West Africa may hold some answers about how Dinosaurs went extinct. Approximately 66 million years ago, a large asteroid, whose crater is ...

The statistical possibility of a long-period comet that is capable of striking the Earth and causing a mass extinction event is about one in every 3.8 billion to 11 billion years, the study says ...

A large asteroid (~12 km in diameter) hit Earth 66 million years ago, likely causing the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Credit: Southwest Research Institute/Don Davis A large asteroid (~12 km in ...

For most of human history, the story of cosmic catastrophe has been told in craters: scars like Chicxulub that mark where asteroids slammed into the planet and rewrote the rules of life. A growing ...

The story we’re told in school is that tens of millions of years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth and the dinosaurs went extinct. To our childish brains, it was as if someone had snapped their fingers, ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, an asteroid collided with Earth and caused a mass extinction known as the Cretaceous–Palaeogene (K-Pg) extinction. This event — which, among other things, wiped out ...

Illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth 66 million years ago on the Yucatan Peninsula in (what is modern day) Mexico. This impact is believed to have led to the death of the dinosaurs ...

Boltysh crater in Ukraine formed around the same time as the Chicxulub event, raising questions about its role in this tumultuous era. By Becky Ferreira Some 65 million years ago, a rock from outer ...