Sixty six million years ago, just off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in what is now the North East coast of modern Mexico ...

Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% ...

Earth forever. See how the Chicxulub impact ended the age of dinosaurs in a matter of days.

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

The cataclysmic asteroid Chicxulub hit the Earth with a catastrophic impact, it obliterated the biggest and heaviest living ...

In an instant, the Chicxulub impact forever changed life on Earth—blasting out a huge crater, vaporizing and flinging up tons of rock, and devastating plant and animal life.

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

A study reveals the chemical makeup of the Chicxulub asteroid that collided with Earth and resulted in the extinction of nearly all dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

Astronomers announced more proof today (Feb. 7) that the Chicxulub asteroid impact 65 million years ago led to mass extinction of dinosaurs. The idea was not always universally accepted.

Chicxulub collision put Earth’s crust in hot water for over a million years. Asteroid crater on the Yucatán Peninsula reveals surprising new geologic details.

But prior to the dinosaurs going away with the Chicxulub impact, signaling the end of the Cretaceous Period, things looked very different. The area’s plant coverage was relatively sparse, ...