Researchers identified the Chicxulub impactor as an exceptionally rare type of asteroid that wouldn't have triggered a mass ...
The asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs erased nearly all traces of itself. It struck Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 66 ...
The international team reached the conclusion after analysing nickel isotopes preserved in a thin layer of clay left behind ...
Scientists trace the dinosaur-killing asteroid to a rare meteorite, shedding new light on Earth's biggest extinction event.
This painting by Donald E. Davis depicts an asteroid slamming into tropical, shallow seas of the sulfur-rich Yucatan Peninsula in what is today southeast Mexico. Wikipedia Sixty-six million years ago, ...