The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German scientists think they've cracked the case on the origins of the giant asteroid that all but wiped out the dinosaurs 66 ...

Buried beneath the northern edge of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula lies the fossil evidence of one of the most consequential single moments in the history of life on Earth. Roughly 66 million years ago, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A conception of a large asteroid hitting Earth. When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing ...

The Chicxulub impact structure in Mexico is widely believed to be the site of the asteroid impact that allegedly killed the dinosaurs. As Sergio de Régules reports, scientists are now preparing to ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10–15 kilometers in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide impact ...

When David Kring of the University of Arizona gave a presentation at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in 1991, he didn’t expect a packed crowd for his talk on the petrology of the Chicxulub ...

The researchers are not the first to propose that the space rock belonged to a group of asteroids that formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Their findings, however, strengthen the case thanks to a rare ...

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 ...