Artist image of asteroid impact that ended the 165-million-year reign of dinosaurs (Florida Atlantic University/Getty Images) The asteroid impact that led to the mass extinction of dinosaurs about 66 ...

Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision created a vast underground ecosystem filled with hot water that sheltered m ...

The devastating asteroid strike that killed off the dinosaurs may have triggered a powerful “mega-earthquake'' that shook Earth for months on end. 66 million years ago a massive solar system body — ...

A team of scientists, including Universities Space Research Association’s David Kring of the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), is studying rock cores recovered by a joint drilling expedition of the ...

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 ...

Some 66 million years ago, a 10-kilometer asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of the dinosaurs. New evidence suggests that the Chicxulub impact also triggered an earthquake so massive that ...

The cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs has fascinated me pretty much all of my life. It's interesting to read about more evidence that a meteor(s) impact would have been the primary cause. As ...