A 66 million-year-old impact crater has been discovered off the coast of West Africa, raising questions about just how many deadly space rocks the dinosaurs had to deal with.

Researchers measured the temperature of the Chicxulub crater 66 million years ago, unlocking mysteries of the dinosaur-dooming mass extinction event. When you purchase through links on our site ...

A newly discovered crater off the coast of West Africa was likely caused by an asteroid more than 400 meters wide that hit the Earth around the same time as the space rock that doomed the ...

A previously undiscovered asteroid crater off the coast of West Africa may hold some answers about how Dinosaurs went extinct. Approximately 66 million years ago, a large asteroid, whose crater is ...

Scientists have dubbed a newly-discovered crater the “Dinosaur Killer’s Cousin,” estimating the meteorite could have hit Earth around the same time as the asteroid that wiped out prehistoric ...

About 66 million years ago, Earth was smacked in the face by an asteroid. No, not that one. Another one. In the journal Science Advances, scientists on Wednesday reported that a huge, buried pit ...

F or decades, the story of the dinosaurs’ demise has centered on a single event: an asteroid smashing into the Earth, creating the Chicxulub crater off the coast of Mexico. The massive impact ...

New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly 90-mile-wide asteroid around 4 billion years ago. The colossal collision was likely ...

The discovery of a huge crater called Chicxulub off the Yucatan Peninsula, plus the iridium and glassy debris scattered for thousands of miles around the impact crater, nailed down the idea.

Astronomers announced more proof today (Feb. 7) that the Chicxulub asteroid impact 65 million years ago led to mass extinction of dinosaurs. The idea was not always universally accepted.

Intriguingly, the crater, named "Nadir" after the nearby volcano Nadir Seamount, is of the same age as the Chicxulub impact caused by a huge asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous period, around 66 ...