Thanks to new research, scientists now know the Chicxulub impact, as it is known, generated a global tsunami wave the likes of which have not been seen since. The new study is the first-ever ...

66 million years ago, a large asteroid crashed into Earth near Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, sparking a frigid global winter that led to the mass extinction of dinosaurs who had reigned over the planet ...

It's the first global simulation of the tsunami caused by the Chicxulub impact to be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, according to the authors. The tsunami was powerful enough to ...

The Chicxulub impact threw sulfur gas, soot and dust into the air. New research finds that the dust may have been the most devastating. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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The miles-wide asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago wiped out nearly all the dinosaurs and roughly three-quarters of the planet's plant and animal species. It also triggered a monstrous ...

The Chicxulub impact structure in Mexico is widely believed to be the site of the asteroid impact that allegedly killed the dinosaurs. As Sergio de Régules reports, scientists are now preparing to ...

For decades, scientists have accumulated ever-larger datasets that suggest an enormous space rock crashed into the ocean off the Yucatan Peninsula more than 65 million years ago, resulting in the ...

When a city-size asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the dinosaurs — and sent a monster tsunami rippling around the planet, according to new research. The asteroid, about ...