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

This Costco location might be the most breathtaking in the world due to its natural surroundings: a beautiful cenote with a ...

The second asteroid's impact site is called the Nadir crater. Rock was liquified, launching a tsunami into the Atlantic Ocean ...

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

Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby Chicxulub Pueblo. After this unusually large impact crater was confirmed, it ...

Harvard researchers found that when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet 3 billion years ago, it may have ...

Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Excavations in North Dakota reveal fossils of fish and ...

Why Trust Us? Everyone knows of the asteroid that spelled the end of all non-avian dinosaurs—the Chicxulub impactor—but a new study shows that a second sizable asteroid might’ve smacked into ...

Kinjal, age 11, Delhi, India When the rock now known as the Chicxulub impactor plummeted from outer space and slammed into the Earth 66 million years ago, cockroaches were there. The impact caused ...

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 ...

The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres in diameter. The collision was devastating: rocks from deep within Earth’s crust were raised 25 kilometres ...