The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula.

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...

In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite ... "We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt." Ten years ago, Jenniskens teamed up with ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

An enormous asteroid ... an impact of this scale would likely cause extensive devastation. Dad made friend dig own grave and kill himself after raping 6-year-old daughter Nuclear map predicts ...

The sheer power of an asteroid impact that gouged a three-mile ... on Landsat 8 captured this view of the impact site, an area called the Amelia Creek Impact Structure," NASA said.