The impactor believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other life forms on Earth some 65 million years ago has been traced back to a breakup event in the main asteroid belt. A joint U.S.-Czech ...

The Chicxulab asteroid, which smashed into the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago with devastating results, put paid to the dominance of the dinosaurs - although by that time some had already ...

Two asteroids that were almost as big fell to Earth 35.65 million years ago, ... The events took place within 25,000 years of each other. One asteroid's diameter was between 5 and 8 kilometers ...

For a long time, scientists have theorised that a huge asteroid struck the Earth 65 million years ago, causing the catastrophic extinction of dinosaurs from the planet and also giving rise to a new ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

Sixty-six-million years ago, a nearly nine-mile-wide asteroid collided with Earth, sparking a mass extinction that wiped out most dinosaurs and three-quarters of the planet’s plant and animal ...

At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an asteroid the size of a city collided with Earth. The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres in ...

Two enormous asteroids that struck Earth about 36 million years ago did not cause any long-lasting shifts to our planet's climate, according to new research. The space rocks, both estimated to be ...

Two asteroids that were almost as big fell to Earth 35.65 million years ago, but their effect was very different. Despite the devastation, it appears that they cause no long-term changes to the ...

The Chicxulab asteroid, which smashed into the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago with devastating results, put paid to the dominance of the dinosaurs - although by that time some had already ...