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 ...

About 66 million years ago, a cosmic collision reshaped life on Earth. A massive asteroid, roughly 10â 15 kilometres wide, slammed into our planet with unimaginable force. The result was a global ...

Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, flying at 27,000 mph (43,000 km/h), slammed directly into Earth. The impact ...

You’re reading this because something catastrophic terminated the more than 150-million-year reign of the dinosaurs. A Brachiosaurus skull is seen at The Natural History Museum in Berlin on July 13, ...

The researchers are not the first to propose that the space rock belonged to a group of asteroids that formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Their findings, however, strengthen the case thanks to a rare ...

When the Chicxulub asteroid slammed into Earth, it set off a chain of planet-wide devastation. New research suggests we should blame Jupiter. Reading time 3 minutes Around 66 million years ago, a rock ...

An asteroid from space slammed into the Earth's surface 66 million years ago, leaving a massive crater underneath the sea and wreaking havoc with the planet. No, it's not that asteroid, the one that ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered the "genetic fingerprint" of the dinosaur-killing Chicxulub impactor, potentially revealing the fateful rock's origins in the outer reaches of our solar system. When you ...

Dust might have been responsible for the deadly dinosaur-killing global winter that came after an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, finds a study published on 30 October in Nature ...