The second asteroid's impact site is called the Nadir crater. Rock was liquified, launching a tsunami into the Atlantic Ocean ...

This, remember, is the colossal event that wiped out the dinosaurs ... B612/Asteroid Day Mexico's famous sinkholes (cenotes) have formed in weakened limestone overlying the crater "It is ...

They cannot date the event exactly, or say whether it came before or after the asteroid which left the 180km-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico. That one ended the reign of the dinosaurs. But they ...

But an investigation into a crater off the coast of West Africa adds color to the story. Researchers have found that the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't working alone—it had a small ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet ... impact that created this crater occurred 65 million years ago. The date corresponds perfectly to the date of the dinosaur extinction.

Not one but two asteroids might have pushed the dinosaurs to extinction. A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment has confirmed that the 8.5-km-wide depression off the coast of ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...