(Editor’s note: This article was updated Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, with information from a study in Nature Geoscience. The study shows that fine particles kicked up from the impact may have blocked the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x ...

A new scientific study reveals that life recovered much faster than expected after the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

The Chicxulub Crater is located off the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and is believed to be caused by an asteroid 66 million years ago that measured six miles wide. The impact was catastrophic for life ...

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 ...

Geologists drills below the seabed of a prehistoric crater created by an asteroid in Mexico that is believed to have killed the dinosaurs. Sharon Reich reports. An international research team is ...

You’re reading this because something catastrophic terminated the more than 150-million-year reign of the dinosaurs. A Brachiosaurus skull is seen at The Natural History Museum in Berlin on July 13, ...

An asteroid from space slammed into the Earth's surface 66 million years ago, leaving a massive crater underneath the sea and wreaking havoc with the planet. No, it's not that asteroid, the one that ...