Thanks to new research, scientists now know the Chicxulub impact, as it is known, generated a global tsunami wave the likes of which have not been seen since. The new study is the first-ever ...

The asteroid that ended the reign of the dinosaurs sixty-six million years ago also created a "mega-tsunami" whose waves grew more than a mile high, according to a new study. Scientists recreated the ...

When a city-size asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the dinosaurs -- and sent a monster tsunami rippling around the planet, according to new research. When a city-size ...

When a miles-wide asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, killing nearly all the dinosaurs as well as most plant and other animals, it also triggered a massive tsunami that altered the globe, ...

For the first time, scientists have simulated how far and fast the Chicxulub asteroid, a.k.a. the one that killed the dinosaurs, impact spread around the globe. Besides wiping out the dinosaurs, it ...

The Earth was struck by a miles-wide asteroid 66 million years ago, eradicating nearly all dinosaur species as well as about three-quarters of plant and animal species. According to recent research ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — This may be a new term that you’ve never heard before – megatsunami – that’s what experts say was the result of what happened nearly 66 million years ago when a 6+ mile ...

New details about the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid - the one which wiped out the dinosaurs - have been revealed after researchers created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor. Around 66 ...

The incredible aftermath of the Chicxulub asteroid impact—one of the most cataclysmic events in Earth’s history—is unfolding beneath the seafloor of Louisiana. New research has uncovered massive ...

Artist's impression of an asteroid impact on Earth. About 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, an asteroid hit Earth in what is today the Gulf of Mexico. The impact would have ...