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 ...

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 ...

How did Earth's last mass extinction unfold? Explore what led to it, what was lost, and how life ultimately found ways to ...

The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. And, until now, it had been assumed that the asteroid acted alone. This week, scientists at Scotland ...

Not one but two asteroids might have pushed the dinosaurs to extinction. A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment has confirmed that the 8.5-km-wide depression off the coast of ...

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 ...

Scientists said that the diameter of the meteorite was about ... time as the 180-kilometer-long Chicxulub crater off the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Chikhulub was formed after a 10 ...

On 15 February 2013, for example, over 1000 people were injured when a small asteroid ... In the early 1990s, the Chicxulub impact crater, some 200 kilometres in size, was discovered under the Yucatán ...

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 ...