Some of the most consequential geology on Earth is invisible from the surface. Buried beneath the flat scrubland and shallow seas of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula lies the Chicxulub crater, the scar left ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A conception of a large asteroid hitting Earth. When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing ...

The story of the dinosaur extinction gets retold so often that it starts to feel like settled trivia: a rock falls from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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Artist's impression of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. At the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition 66 million years ago, an asteroid about 10 kilometers in ...

A team of scientists led by Universities Space Research Association’s David Kring at the Lunar and Planetary Institute is using observations of the Moon to further understand the impact on Earth that ...

Scientists basically agree that an asteroid struck the Earth some 65 million years ago and its impact created the Chicxulub crater in Yucatan, Mexico. More controversial is the link between this ...

When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after ...