Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, flying at 27,000 mph (43,000 km/h), slammed directly into Earth. The impact ...

Scientists discover there wasn’t just one asteroid which killed dinosaurs – after 66 million years - Evidence of a second ...

Rock layers deposited before and after the major dinosaur extinction event 65 million years ago are surprisingly different.

The Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction, occurring approximately 66 million years ago, represents one of the most dramatic biotic crises in Earth’s history. It is marked by the abrupt disappearance ...

In September 2025, an X post viewed over 1 million times claimed the world's biggest meteorite impact crater was in Mexico and included a video of the purported site. The video an ...

That killed T. rex? Berkeley team says it was it was a space impact after all. Feb. 7, 2013 — -- Go digging with dinosaur hunters and they will show you that the last of the Cretaceous beasts ...

The Silverpit Crater was confirmed as an asteroid impact site. Shocked crystals and seismic data prove the event created a huge tsunami. For decades, scientists have debated the origin of the ...

A large asteroid (~12 km in diameter) hit Earth 66 million years ago, likely causing the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Credit: Southwest Research Institute/Don Davis A large asteroid (~12 km in ...

What if we told you that the giant crater believed to have ended the reign of the dinosaurs is still here on Earth—but the actual meteor that made it? Nowhere to be found. 🌍💥 The Chicxulub Crater in ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, and raised hopes that a space rock could be deflected from a collision ...

Scientists have found proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago causing a huge tsunami and ...