The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

The incredible aftermath of the Chicxulub asteroid impact—one of the most cataclysmic events in Earth’s history—is unfolding ...

The findings offer a new insight into the extreme forces unleashed by the tsunami that followed the Chicxulub asteroid impact ...

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and ...

Seismic data reveals megaripples in Louisiana, formed by the Chicxulub asteroid’s tsunami 66 million years ago.

When a large dinosaur-killing asteroid struck the Earth approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub crater was formed. It is buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and has been ...

The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres in diameter. The collision was devastating: rocks from deep within Earth’s crust were raised 25 kilometres ...

An asteroid doesn't need to be massive to cause serious damage. The Chicxulub asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 6 miles in diameter. That may sound like a ...