When Catastrophe Strikes: The Chicxulub Impact The story begins with an asteroid more than 6 miles (over 10 kilometers) wide ...

A new study published Tuesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences found that fine silicate dust from the Chicxulub asteroid amplified the impact's surface heat flux by a factor of 3 ...

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 ...

Some 66 million years ago, an errant asteroid wiped out three-quarters of all plant and animal species on Earth, most notably taking down the dinosaurs. That has long been the scientific consensus.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dinosaurs look on as an asteroid plumets through the sky. 66 million years ago, a large asteroid crashed into Earth near Mexico's ...

WASHINGTON — 66 million years ago, the six-mile-wide Chicxulub asteroid crash-landed in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and changed life on Earth forever. The reign of the dinosaurs ended, and only ...

New simulations reveal the one option left when warning time runs out—and it’s nuclear.

When the Chicxulub asteroid slammed into Earth, it set off a chain of planet-wide devastation. New research suggests we should blame Jupiter. Reading time 3 minutes Around 66 million years ago, a rock ...

Though the asteroid impactor struck Earth and likely spelled the end of the Age of Dinosaurs about 66 million years ago, researchers are still uncovering more about it. Researchers from the University ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...