Asteroid Day reminds us of space rocks' power. Some asteroids hit Earth hard. One exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring ...

The big sky country of the western North America is a world-renowned dinosaur playground. Household-name dinosaurs like ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

The Chicxulub crater, located off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, is one of the most significant geological sites on Earth. It marks the catastrophic impact of a massive asteroid or ...

Reduced contribution of sulfur to the mass extinction associated with the Chicxulub impact event. Nature Communications, 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55145-6 ...

The asteroid responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs created a much larger crater – 160 km wide – at Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

The 5.3-mile-wide crater is now confirmed to be 66 million years old, suggesting that the impact of at least two giant space rocks preceded the mass extinction of dinosaurs.

Scientists suggest crater from dinosaur extinction event caused by carbon-rich ‘C-type’ asteroid from beyond Jupiter's orbit Efe Özkan | 16.08.2024 - Update : 16.08.2024 ...

Evidence at the Chicxulub crater supports the notion that the crash would have been devastating enough to send deadly vaporized rock and gas into the atmosphere, filling the Earth with dust ...