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 ...

The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the ...

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 ...

This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula. Scientists calculate that it was blasted into Earth by a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid or comet traveling 30 kilometers per second ...

A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash ... providing an unprecedented opportunity to study the massive crater it would create. “Part of our motivation to continue observing ...

A hydrothermal system near the coast of Mexico, caused by the same asteroid event that killed the dinosaurs, lasted 700,000 ...

For the first time in history, a team of international scientists are drilling into the center of the underwater crater created by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Produced by Jenner Deal.

It’s a bit like a one-shot cannon and, once it’s released and Hayabusa2 moves to a safe distance, it will fire into the asteroid’s surface and produce a large crater. The crater, which JAXA ...

As if we did not already have enough to worry about, astronomers recently discovered an asteroid that may hit the Earth. Based on observations of its orbit, Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site ...