Scientists are projecting a small but significant chance that an asteroid could strike the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Asteroids ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

Scientists have concluded that the impact that created this crater occurred 65 million years ago. The date corresponds perfectly to the date of the dinosaur extinction. Rare Metal The metal ...

A study published in Nature has revealed that the mass extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ... Researchers mapped an underwater crater off the coast of Guinea, known as the Nadir crater ...

66 million years ago an asteroid hit the planet. Now an expedition is underway to drill 1500m into the crater it created - the Chicxulub asteroid impact crater, aiming to unearthing the secrets that ...

“The fate of the dinosaurs and many other species was sealed by this projectile from the outer reaches of the solar system.” Previous research claimed that the rock was a “long-period ...

And mammals sat poised to fill the void that soon would be left by the vanished dinosaurs. A giant crater smoldered on what would become known as the Yucatán Peninsula. Whether or not the ...

Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period ... as is evidenced by a vast 93 mile wide crater beneath the Yucatan Peninsula. This is possibly the best known of the five largest mass ...

Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...

The colossal clomp crater discovered during an expedition ... it one of the largest hadrosaurid (a type of herbivorous bipedal dinosaur) prints ever discovered. The footprints were found in ...