Three City-Killing Asteroids Could Strike Earth Soon Without Warning, Researchers Say It Is More Powerful Than Hiroshima ...

The Chicxulub crater, located off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, is one of the most significant geological ...

The aftereffects of the collision resulted in the extinction of an estimated 75% of animal species, including most dinosaurs except for birds. But practically nothing of the asteroid itself remains.

including the dinosaurs, and ushering the end of the Cretaceous period have long been debated. However, the most widely accepted theory for the mass extinction is that an asteroid (or, perhaps a ...

“Dinosaurs were probably not inevitably doomed to extinction at the end of the Mesozoic,” Chiarenza said. “If it weren’t for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with ...

“Dinosaurs were probably not inevitably doomed to extinction at the end of the Mesozoic. If it weren’t for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with mammals, lizards, and their ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

then shrank until the asteroid strike wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs. This trend was even more pronounced in the 6 million years before the mass extinction, with the number of fossils from all ...

Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: seated in front of the computer monitor at Mt. Lemmon Observatory near ...

Study by UChicago, Smithsonian, UK Natural History Museum challenges assumptions about survival after global catastrophe ...

A duck-billed Hadrosaurus was unearthed in Haddonfield, New Jersey, in 1858. Just 12 miles from this Mantua museum site, the ...