The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

A new discovery reveals the immense power of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, leaving behind 'mega ripples' on the ocean floor ...

Previous studies have found that the nearly 10km-wide asteroid that slammed into the water near what is now Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula triggered a massive tsunami unlike anything ever documented.

For example, an asteroid estimated at 6-9 miles (10-15 km) wide - much larger than 2024 YR4 - hit off the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, eradicating about three-quarters ...

Last week, NASA announced that the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had been recalculated thanks to additional data, and now has a 0.28 per cent chance of collision in 2032, or about 1 in ...

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 ...

This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula. Scientists calculate that it was blasted into Earth by a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid or comet traveling 30 kilometers per second ...

As a planetary geologist, my research focuses on meteorite impact craters ... is the 200 km-diameter Chicxulub impact crater in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. This impact wiped out 65 percent ...

Meteor showers and an eclipse feature in the skies this spring See a dawn solar eclipse and two meteor showers in the sky this Spring ...