For decades, the prevailing theory behind the mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has pointed to a ...
The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the planet 66 million years ago and brought a calamitous end to the reign of dinosaurs.
The Earth bears geologic evidence of past cosmic impacts, such as the 125-mile-wide Chixculub Crater in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, which was the likely impact site of the 6-mile-wide asteroid ...
A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...
It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it ...
A city-size asteroid slammed into Earth off ... identified a 200-kilometer-wide (125-mile-wide) crater off the coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.“It was the enrichment of iridium in ...