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 ...

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 ...

Mumbai's black basalt rock is a direct legacy of the Deccan Traps eruptions, which occurred almost simultaneously with the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it smashed into Earth "with the energy of about 8 billion times a World War II-era nuclear bomb, the asteroid basically ...

When David Kring of the University of Arizona gave a presentation at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in 1991, he didn’t expect a packed crowd for his talk on the petrology of the Chicxulub ...

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the catastrophe. Reading time 3 minutes Around 66 million years ago, an ...

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 ...

Purdue researchers say the Chicxulub impact threw up a dust cloud that trapped heat across Earth. The finding suggests this global blanket, not the collision alone, sealed the dinosaurs' fate.

At some level, this dust layer likely produced a cooling effect, much as large volcanic eruptions do today. Indeed, a ...

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 ...

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 ...