When an asteroid made Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, it did more than leave the Earth’s best preserved impact crater. According to new research, the earthquake that the collision caused induced a ...

So then, what killed the dinosaurs in such a sudden fashion? Whatever it was, it also destroyed 75 percent of all plants and ...

The presence of driftwood and lake sediments has long been known in Stanton's Cave in Marble Canyon of eastern Grand Canyon. The mouth of the cave is 150 feet above the river, so geologists wondered ...

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 ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at ...

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs came from beyond Jupiter, a new study suggests. Menu. ... But when the rock struck Earth, creating what we call the Chicxulub crater, ...

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Based on simulations the researchers ran in 2022, the Nadir Crater was most likely formed when an asteroid with a radius of roughly 400 meters (1,312 feet) smacked into the ocean.

Asteroid Day reminds us of space rocks' power. Some asteroids hit Earth hard. One exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring many. The Tunguska event ...

Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was as strong as 10 billion atomic bombs, study says. By Mike Wehner. Published Sep 12th, 2019 10:36PM EDT. ... a location now known as the Chicxulub crater.

The asteroid that created the Nadir crater measured around 450-500m wide, and scientists think it hit Earth at about 72,000km/h. ... Impact crater may be dinosaur killer's baby cousin.