An illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in what is modern-day Mexico. The asteroid responsible for our last mass extinction 66 million years ago — wiping out ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a single asteroid hit Earth in the Yucatán Peninsula and killed off the dinosaurs. The disaster ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at least ...

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 ...

A single asteroid hit the Yucatán Peninsula with more power than a billion nuclear bombs. The result? The end of the age of dinosaurs. Discover how the Chicxulub impact caused chaos across the planet, ...

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs left a massive buried crater off the Yucatan coast in Mexico. Known as the ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (Reuters) - It was a turning point in the history of life on Earth. An asteroid an estimated 6-9 miles (10-15 km) wide slammed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, ...

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico ...

The researchers are not the first to propose that the space rock belonged to a group of asteroids that formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Their findings, however, strengthen the case thanks to a rare ...

The Chicxulub impact structure in Mexico is widely believed to be the site of the asteroid impact that allegedly killed the dinosaurs. As Sergio de Régules reports, scientists are now preparing to ...