The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in ...

There might still be dinosaurs living on Earth today — if not for the giant asteroid. It’s a long-debated issue, but now ...

An asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous Period ended the dinosaurs, but earlier smaller extinctions dramatically set the ...

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

Credit: Sato et al. A gravity anomaly map of the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan Peninsula. Credit: NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission "After the asteroid impact, the Gulf of Mexico records an ...

Learn more about a meteorite impact that may have given rise to the life we know on Earth today.

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.