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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 ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

A menacing asteroid, some six miles wide, triggered Earth's last mass extinction. Now, scientists have found where it ...

On a spring day some 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid smashed down just north of what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. This sudden impact created tsunamis stretching one mile ...

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.

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 ...