The second asteroid's impact site is called the Nadir crater. Rock was liquified, launching a tsunami into the Atlantic Ocean ...

This, remember, is the colossal event that wiped out the dinosaurs ... B612/Asteroid Day Mexico's famous sinkholes (cenotes) have formed in weakened limestone overlying the crater "It is ...

They cannot date the event exactly, or say whether it came before or after the asteroid which left the 180km-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico. That one ended the reign of the dinosaurs. But they ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet ... impact that created this crater occurred 65 million years ago. The date corresponds perfectly to the date of the dinosaur extinction.

Not one but two asteroids might have pushed the dinosaurs to extinction. A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment has confirmed that the 8.5-km-wide depression off the coast of ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet ... impact that created this crater occurred 65 million years ago. The date corresponds perfectly to the date of the dinosaur extinction.