An exceptionally bright meteor streaked across the Mexico City sky, ending with a loud explosion in the pre-dawn hours of ...

The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the ...

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula.

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

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 ...

This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula. Scientists calculate that it was blasted into Earth by a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid or comet traveling 30 kilometers per second ...

A new museum at Rowan University in southern New Jersey—an area of considerable paleontological significance—offers a compelling look at the end of the dinosaur age.

The most significant asteroid so far to hit Earth was 66 million years ago. The mountain-size asteroid struck South America and left a crater off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, which ...

The study highlights fossilized specimens, including fish, trees, and marine ammonites, all of which were deposited by large surges of water caused by the asteroid impact, which occurred near the ...