The asteroid brought a monstrous tsunami with mile-high waves that scoured the ocean floor thousands of miles from the impact site in Mexico.

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation following the impact that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs.

Scientists have discovered that the near nine mile diameter asteroid that wiped out prehistoric life on Earth triggered a "mile high" tsunami across the globe.

A study by researchers at the University of Michigan indicates that a global tsunami ravaged the earth after the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs landed.

A new study claims the historical dino-killing asteroid also caused a global tsunami, wiping out sediment records at the time.

If a large asteroid crashes into the ocean, could it trigger a massive tsunami capable of wiping out entire coastal cities? Scientists have studied past asteroid impacts and their potential to ...

Asteroid glass on the Moon provides a window into dino-killing impacts Molly Range was a master’s student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan when ...

A team modeling the aftermath of the asteroid impact that doomed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago say that the collision also created a global tsunami that devastated coastlines from North ...

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

Around 66 million years ago a huge asteroid slammed into Earth and wiped out most life. Two new studies have identified evidence that the impact triggered global tsunamis almost a mile high and ...

Mars Asteroid Impact Helps to Solve a 'Mega Tsunami' Mystery The solar system smash was similar to Earth's Chicxulub impact, which ended the reign of the dinosaurs. Jackson Ryan Dec. 1, 2022 5:00 ...

Maximum tsunami wave amplitude, in centimeters, following the asteroid impact 66 million years ago. Range et al. 2022/AGU Advances The researchers modeled an asteroid that was 14 kilometers in ...