Not far from College Station, Texas, we saw an echo of the event that, 66 million years ago, radically changed life on Earth.

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 ...

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A meteorite impact site dating back 1.2 billion years has been identified in Scotland, rewriting what scientists know about ...

2025 — More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has ... World's Oldest Impact Crater Found ...

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 ...