They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

When a large dinosaur-killing asteroid struck the Earth approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub crater was formed. It is buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and has been ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

The long, asymmetrical sides of the ripples slope south-southeast, pointing back to their source in the Chicxulub impact ...

What a difference 30 minutes made! Barry Evans (he/him, [email protected]) is reminded that the odds against his birth ...

The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a small town close to this point.

A giant crater smoldered on what would become known as the Yucatán Peninsula. Whether or not the asteroid or comet that carved the Chicxulub crater caused the extinction of more than half the ...