For decades, the prevailing theory behind the mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has pointed to a ...

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation following the impact that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs.

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-T) extinction, scientists are still finding stunning evidence of its destruction. In 2021 ...

An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

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

The new Argentine dino might give us clues to what the world was like before the asteroid wiped out their kind.

Scientists have created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, revealing further the events that led to the devastating ...

Indeed, previous studies on the Chicxulub 10-km asteroid impact, which happened around 66 million years ago, revealed that dust, soot and sulphur led to a global “impact winter” and was very likely ...