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 ...

Previous studies have found that the nearly 10km-wide asteroid that slammed into the water near what is now Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula triggered a massive tsunami unlike anything ever documented.

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 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 ...