The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation ...

Scientists have created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out ...

The incredible aftermath of the Chicxulub asteroid impact—one of the most cataclysmic events in Earth’s history—is unfolding ...

A new discovery reveals the immense power of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, leaving behind 'mega ripples' on the ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

And given enough time, they will happen again. Until very recently, were a Chicxulub-sized asteroid to find itself on a collision course with Earth, we wouldn’t have been able to do much more ...

Torres: 3.1 percent is not high but it is the highest risk level of a space rock crashing into us, ever. Except for the one ...

Researchers uncover the oldest asteroid crater in Australia, revealing its role in shaping Earth’s ancient climate.

Not even close. That asteroid, called the Chicxulub impactor, hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico 66 million years ago. It’s estimated to have been 10 kilometres wide — bigger ...