When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The main culprit behind the end of the dinosaurs is now widely accepted to be an extraterrestrial ...

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 ...

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 ...

When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after ...

The asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago left behind more than a legacy of mass destruction. That impact also sent superheated seawater swirling through the crust below for more than ...

Sixty-five million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into Earth, causing tsunamis, earthquakes, fires, a global winter, and the end of the age of the dinosaurs. But what if the asteroid had glided ...

Large asteroids like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs may be more common than previously thought, scientists have discovered. The space rock that caused the dinosaurs' extinction, known as the ...

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 ...

The main culprit behind the end of the dinosaurs is now widely accepted to be an extraterrestrial collision of epic proportions, one that left behind the gargantuan crater of Chicxulub at Mexico.