Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have presented a report offering new geophysical clues to a cataclysmic event that may have killed off the dinosaurs. AUSTIN, Texas (Dec. 21, 2000) -- ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The rock and dust kicked up by an asteroid impact 65 million years ago was not enough to kill the dinosaurs, according to researchers--but the debris might have sparked a deadly ...

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 ...

Scientists have debated for two decades whether a giant space rock wiped out the dinosaurs or if some other catastrophe did the deed. Now, a blue-ribbon panel of scientists has banded together to ...

Reviving a 30-year-old controversy, Berkeley scientists have pinned down the precise time when a monster comet or asteroid slammed into Earth and, they say, wiped out the dinosaurs in a global mass ...

A ccording to conventional paleontological wisdom, an asteroid or comet 10 to 14 kilometers wide crashed into the present-day Yucatán Peninsula 65 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs. Most ...

Impact breccia: Rock recovered from the peak ring of the Chicxulub Crater The effort to drill into the Chicxulub Crater off the coast of Mexico has been declared an outstanding success. A UK/US-led ...

Merida - A prehistoric crater left by an asteroid collision in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula could yield clues about what Mars was like billions of years ago, a Nasa scientist says. Nasa planetary ...

The effort to drill into the Chicxulub Crater off the coast of Mexico has been declared an outstanding success. A UK/US-led team has spent the past seven weeks coring into the deep bowl cut out of the ...