The Chicxulab asteroid, which smashed into the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago with devastating results, put paid to the dominance of the dinosaurs - although by that time some had already ...

Earth is no stranger to mass extinction events – it’s had five so far, and some scientists have even claimed we’re in the ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks 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 ...

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 ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape ... struck just off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago. According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur ...

But what if this much larger asteroid had hit Earth 66 million years ago, after flowers, trees, dinosaurs, mammals, fish and other complex life had evolved? “For this type of event, only simple ...

A recent study published on August 16 has traced the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, indicating that it came from beyond Jupiter in our solar system.

Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that ... They have also dated the debris to 65.76 million years ago, which is in very good agreement with ...

Some have suggested an asteroid impact, while others have proposed ... resulting in a decade of widespread drought, followed by years of flooding. Basically, the climate was all over the place ...

Then, 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs vanished from the world forever. In the search for answers to what killed the dinosaurs, scientists have looked beyond fossils. Geological evidence also ...