The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in ...

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive ...

These living reptiles were found close to the impact crater of the asteroid that likely ended the reign of the great reptiles known as dinosaurs. A paleontological twist that stands out. These ...

Show me the crater In the mid-1980s ... I was holding microscopic pieces of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs– fragments from the event that gave mammals a chance to rise, and humans ...

Once upon a starlit evening in December 2024, astronomers discovered something small, fast and potentially very rude hurtling ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

A meteorite impact site dating back 1.2 billion years has been identified in Scotland, rewriting what scientists know about ...

In a recent groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified evidence of a meteorite impact in north-west Scotland that ...

Previously, scientists attributed the extinction of the dinosaurs to a massive asteroid hitting Earth 66 million years ago. Specifically, the Chicxulub crater in Mexico was considered the main ...