Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dinosaurs look on as an asteroid plumets through the sky. 66 million years ago, a large asteroid crashed into Earth near Mexico's ...

That miles-wide asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago on what’s now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The study in the journal AGU Advances presents the first global simulation of the Chicxulub impact ...

A simulation suggests that fine particles played a stronger role in cooling the planet and stalling photosynthesis after an asteroid impacted the Earth. By Miriam Fauzia On a spring day over 66 ...

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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 ...

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 ...