When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at least ...

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico ...

ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite images the verdant Yucatán peninsula, once home to the Maya civilization and the site of the impact believed to have doomed the dinosaurs. As part of the Atlantic Hurricane ...

The asteroid in question is widely believed to have slammed into Earth around 66 million years ago off the Yucatán Peninsula Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He ...

For decades, the prevailing theory behind the mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has pointed to a catastrophic asteroid impact near today’s Yucatán Peninsula. The massive crater of ...

The Chicxulub Impact Crater, located on the Yucatán Peninsula, represents one of Earth’s most significant impact structures and offers a unique window into catastrophic processes that reshaped the ...

Aug. 18 (UPI) --Scientists now believe more than one asteroid could have impacted Earth, contributing to the extinction of dinosaurs, according to new research. Researchers discovered evidence of an ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, an asteroid collided with Earth and caused a mass extinction known as the Cretaceous–Palaeogene (K-Pg) extinction. This event — which, among other things, wiped out ...