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 ...

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the ...

According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly, the impact ... dinosaurs, but of up to 70 percent of all plants and animals living at the time. This 150-kilometer-wide ...

The 112-mile (180 kilometers) Chicxulub crater in Mexico was made by the impact that caused the extinction of dinosaurs and about 70 percent of all species on Earth, many scientists believe.

(CNN)-- A team of scientists has agreed that a giant asteroid killed off dinosaurs and ... University of California San Diego. The impact caused a crater 24 miles deep and 125 miles wide ...

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 ...

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site ...

A hydrothermal system near the coast of Mexico, caused by the same asteroid event that killed the dinosaurs, lasted 700,000 ...

66 million years ago an asteroid hit the planet. Now an expedition is underway to drill 1500m into the crater it created - the Chicxulub asteroid impact crater, aiming to unearthing the secrets that ...

Did dinosaurs lose their dominance suddenly or ... Although geologists generally acknowledge that a comet or asteroid impact would cause these fractures, some scientists conclude that they could ...