The Chicxulab asteroid, which smashed into the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago with devastating results, put paid to the dominance of the dinosaurs - although by that time some had already ...

Earth is no stranger to mass extinction events – it’s had five so far, and some scientists have even claimed we’re in the ...

Your support makes all the difference. A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a 124 ...

The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape ... struck just off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago. According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

A recent study published on August 16 has traced the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, indicating that it came from beyond Jupiter in our solar system.

Researchers have traced the origins of the resulting rare meteorite fragments, which began the journey to Earth some 23 million years ago. The asteroid, called 2018 LA, shot across the sky like a ...

Chinese researchers studied adult and larval Loricera specimens trapped in the Cretaceous in three amber fossils unearthed ...

Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that ... They have also dated the debris to 65.76 million years ago, which is in very good agreement with ...

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...