The second asteroid's impact site is called the Nadir crater. Rock was liquified, launching a tsunami into the Atlantic Ocean ...

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 ...

The end of non-avian dinosaur’s time on Earth is often depicted as one big, knockout blow delivered by the cataclysmic asteroid Chicxulub, which crashed off the coast of what is now the Yucatán ...

D: Iron in the ocean (from the ocean circulation, from the impactor itself, and from erosion), along with nutrients (like ...

Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby ...

But an investigation into a crater off the coast of West Africa adds color to the story. Researchers have found that the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't working alone—it had a small ...

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 ...

The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for its role in dinosaur extinction ... of a Second Asteroid Impact A lesser-known crater, the Nadir, was discovered off the coast of West ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...