Ever since the first dinosaur fossils were identified in the 19th century, scientists have been trying to figure out why ...

The 5.3-mile-wide crater is now confirmed to be 66 million years old, suggesting that the impact of at least two giant space rocks preceded the mass extinction of dinosaurs.

A large asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, killing the giant dinosaurs and countless other ancient creatures. This cataclysmic event left behind the infamous Chicxulub crater, which is ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

Evidence for the Asteroid Impact Hypothesis Impact Crater This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula.

Scientists think they know the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs German scientists found evidence that the space rock came from the outer limits of our solar system, well beyond ...

Geological clues suggest that the space rock that created Chicxulub crater was a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite.

Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% ...

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 ...

The way of the dinosaurs The Chicxulub Crater on the Yucatan Peninsula maintains the geographic memory of the Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Event. Photo: UT Austin/Google Maps ...

Finding a layer of asteroid dust around the globe that seemed to immediately precede a massive die-off of so many species was already pretty solid evidence, but linking the Chicxulub Crater to ...

The end of the Cretaceous period saw disastrous geological and astronomical events, but researchers say that one in particular is to blame for the mass extinction.