Was it the asteroid or colossal volcanism that initiated the demise of the dinosaurs ... the impact event is exactly contemporaneous with the extinction." Investigations of a 200km-wide crater ...

The huge asteroid ... crater in Mexico. That one ended the reign of the dinosaurs. But they say the smaller rock also came at the end of the Cretaceous period when they went extinct.

Did a collision with a giant asteroid ... that the impact that created this crater occurred 65 million years ago. The date corresponds perfectly to the date of the dinosaur extinction.

XA1, struck Earth on Dec. 3, 2024, burning up over Siberia. It's the 11th detected before impact. No damage was reported.

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán ... Sun-blocking dust from asteroid impact drove the dinosaur extinction The Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago filled the sky with fine silicate dust ...

Asteroid impacts have changed Earth's landscape time and time again. Some impacts caused great change to occur, like the ...

Research shows that some of Earth's largest asteroid impacts, despite their destruction, had minimal long-term climate ...

The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for its role in dinosaur extinction ... New Evidence of a Second Asteroid Impact A lesser-known crater, the Nadir, was discovered off the ...

Lava flows like these provide evidence of a rash of volcanic activity for at least 500,000 years leading up to the extinction of the dinosaurs ... that a comet or asteroid impact would cause ...

A study published in Nature has revealed that the mass extinction of dinosaurs ... by multiple asteroid impacts, not just one. Researchers mapped an underwater crater off the coast of Guinea ...

Scientists have long known that an asteroid slammed in Earth and created the Chicxulub Crater, which contributed to the dinosaurs ... asteroid impact were more responsible for the extinction ...