Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A conception of a large asteroid hitting Earth. When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing ...

An asteroid from space slammed into the Earth's surface 66 million years ago, leaving a massive crater underneath the sea and wreaking havoc with the planet. No, it's not that asteroid, the one that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x ...

The surprise crater was discovered on Earth's unexplored ocean floor. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This article was originally ...

The 5.3-mile-wide crater is now confirmed to be 66 million years old, suggesting that the impact of at least two giant space rocks preceded the mass extinction of dinosaurs. Reading time 3 minutes ...

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the catastrophe. Reading time 3 minutes Around 66 million years ago, an ...

Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide meteorite crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The dating ends speculation that the meteorite ...

A great Tyrannosaurus rex strides through the conifer trees of her territory, sniffing the air. She picks up the scent from ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a huge asteroid famously hit the Earth, causing the extinction of dinosaurs and about half of ...

The impactor that formed the Vredefort crater, Earth’s largest, about two billion years ago, was probably much bigger than previously believed—and would have had devastating consequences, a new study ...

Ground zero of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs just yielded a ghost from the past. Among the debris of a global catastrophe, a student found evidence of a predator that shouldn’t exist. It didn ...