Earth’s most famous killer asteroid came from the outer reaches of the solar system, researchers report in the Aug. 16 Science. Now, new chemical analyses of those rock layers, which mark the boundary ...

Millions of years ago, a colossal asteroid slammed into Earth near modern-day Mexico, triggering one of the deadliest events ...

A groundbreaking revelation has emerged regarding the event that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Recent research ...

Analysis of samples collected from the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact site has revealed that cataclysmic asteroid impacts can cause a planet’s surface to behave like a fluid. About 66 million years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 60 million years ago, a giant asteroid—or comet—slammed into Earth, catalyzing the extinction of the dinosaurs. This ...

Researchers have so far overlooked the impact of dust particles on the mass extinction of species following the Chicxulub asteroid impact. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Off the coast of Mexico, the Chicxulub crater is all that remains of a defining moment in Earth's history. The hole spans 93 miles wide and bores 12 miles deep into the Earth. It was left by an ...

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid slammed into Earth so hard it essentially turned solid ground to liquid. This is according to a new study on an unusual ring of smashed rocks beneath Mexico’s ...

Harvard astrophysicists proposed a new model showing that the Chicxulub impactor — the celestial body responsible for the mass extinction of the dinosaurs — could have been of cometary, rather than ...