In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% ...

An illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in what is modern-day Mexico. The asteroid responsible for our last mass extinction 66 million years ago — wiping out ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at least ...

It is easy to get caught up in – and stressed out about – the news, elections, wars, economics, and other events. I find it useful to remember that one of the most decisive events in the history of ...

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (Reuters) - It was a turning point in the history of life on Earth. An asteroid an estimated 6-9 miles (10-15 km) wide slammed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, ...

While Earth was famously hit by a meteor that killed off the dinosaurs, many others have also hit our planet, many of them ...

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs left a massive buried crater off the Yucatan coast in Mexico. Known as the ...

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 ...

Something in the sky captured the attention of astronomers in the final days of 2024. A telescope in Chile scanning the night sky detected a faint point of light, and it didn’t correspond to any of ...