The asteroid linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs was not an ordinary space rock. New research suggests that the ...

Dinosaurs roasted to death in a hellish “oven” created by superheated dust when an asteroid hit Earth 66m years ago, scientists believe.

The Scene of the Crime: Chicxulub and the Prehistoric Apocalypse About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly 6 miles wide ...

We know why the dinosaurs died—a massive asteroid hit the Yucatan Peninsula forming the Chicxulub crater—but how they died is still the subject of debate. To paraphrase Robert Frost, some say it ...

Researchers just uncovered more about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago - Findings really underscore ‘how unlucky the dinosaurs were,’ researcher says ...

The dig (called Tanis by paleo experts) is conducted by a team led by Robert DePalma, a doctoral student at the University of Kansas. Another team notable is Dr Walter Alvarez, son of Luis Alvarez, ...

Purdue planetary scientists Brandon Johnson and Alexandria Johnson discovered that the Chicxulub impact created a global dust ...

Sixty-six million years ago, the six-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) Chicxulub asteroid crash-landed in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and changed life on Earth forever. The reign of the dinosaurs ended, ...

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago likely belonged to a rare class. The extinction occurred ...

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs didn’t keep life down for long. New research shows that microscopic plankton began evolving into new species within just a few thousand years—and ...

Even small asteroids can cause some damage.