For decades, the prevailing theory behind the mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has pointed to a ...

The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres in diameter. The collision was devastating: rocks from deep within Earth’s crust were raised 25 kilometres ...

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-T) extinction, scientists are still finding stunning evidence of its destruction. In 2021 ...

Now scientists have found extraordinary evidence which documents the colossal asteroid impact event. It was widely accepted that the Chicxulub meteorite impact was a major cause, as is evidenced by a ...

Seventy-five percent of life on Earth was obliterated after the asteroid impact at Chicxulub, which took place 66 million ...

The model also revealed that the Chicxulub impact, when the Earth's surface and shape are considered, would have likely been too small to cause the Deccan Traps. Advanced Search Home ...

An ancient impact structure in remote northern Australia was recently spotted by one of NASA's Earth-observing satellite ...