YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried ... material accumulated where the asteroid hit with the power of 10 billion ...

Some 66million years ago, a giant asteroid believed to be about 10 and 15 kilometres wide crashed into the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The devastation was planet-wide, and drove the dinosaurs ...

The risk of the asteroid hitting Earth has fallen from 3 per cent to 0.002 per cent in a matter of days, but if the chance ...

It's very rare that planetary geologists can tell whether it was an asteroid or comet that hit. One of the most famous of ...

What a difference 30 minutes made! Barry Evans (he/him, [email protected]) is reminded that the odds against his birth ...

Earth bears evidence of large asteroid hits in the past. Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula is believed to have been formed when an asteroid, six miles in diameter, struck 65 million years ago ...

An asteroid estimated at 6-9 miles wide hit off the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, eradicating about three-quarters of the world's species and ending the age of dinosaurs.

Not even close. That asteroid, called the Chicxulub impactor, hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico 66 million years ago. It’s estimated to have been 10 kilometres wide — bigger than Mount ...

A CHILLING simulation video has revealed the devastating impact a 'city-killer' asteroid would have if it hit Earth ... crashed into the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The devastation was planet ...