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The space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was a rare strike from an asteroid beyond Jupiter, a new study details. The finding pins down the nature of the fateful space rock ...

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 ...

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Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Had an Accomplice, Study Suggests A second impact crater from the same time period as the Chicxulub crater shows the rock that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't working alone.

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed.

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs came from beyond Jupiter, a new study suggests.