About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact ...

NASA scientists are already finding ways to make sure that the end of the world will not be caused by an asteroid.

The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres in diameter. The collision was devastating: rocks from deep within Earth’s crust were raised 25 kilometres ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10–15 kilometers in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide ...