Some of the most consequential geology on Earth is invisible from the surface. Buried beneath the flat scrubland and shallow ...

Purdue planetary scientists Brandon Johnson and Alexandria Johnson discovered that the Chicxulub impact created a global dust ...

A thick global blanket of dust from the impact insulated Earth's atmosphere, triggering global wildfires and killing off the ...

It struck the seas off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula with the force of billions of atomic bombs, carving out the 112-mile-wide Chicxulub crater. The asteroid vaporized almost instantly.

Based on computer simulations and geologic evidence, scientists propose that the deadly event may have caused global ...

Researchers identified the Chicxulub impactor as an exceptionally rare type of asteroid that wouldn't have triggered a mass ...

We know why the dinosaurs died—a massive asteroid hit the Yucatan Peninsula forming the Chicxulub crater—but how they died is still the subject of debate. To paraphrase Robert Frost, some say it ...

According to new evidence published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, the answer may be the flash ...

For more than 160 million years, dinosaurs dominated life on Earth. They survived shifting continents, volcanic eruptions, ...

The Chicxulub impact structure in Mexico is widely believed to be the site of the asteroid impact that allegedly killed the dinosaurs. As Sergio de Régules reports, scientists are now preparing to ...

The day a massive asteroid hit our planet about 65 million years ago may have been the most chaotic day on Earth, and we’re not just talking about the mass extinction part. New research on the ...