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

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 ...

If you thought the mass extinction caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact 65 million years ago was bad, think again. Travel ...

One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...

The impact site of the second asteroid is called the Nadir crater, where rock was liquified and a tsunami launched into the ...

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

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 ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

The study claims that Earth's continents are drifting and will one day form a single supercontinent. This will be accompanied ...

This meteorite, designated as S2, is roughly 200 times larger than the Chicxulub responsible for the dinosaurs’ extinction.

Humans and other mammals will in the future vanish from Earth in a mass extinction event linked to extreme temperatures, a ...