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A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago ...
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 ...
Sixty-six million years ago, give or take, a massive asteroid struck what is now the Yucatán Peninsula, triggering the ...
A “city killer” asteroid will likely spare Earth — but still has a chance of smashing into the Moon.
The nearly 10km-wide asteroid caused a massive tsunami unlike anything ever documented, after slamming into the water near what is now Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
New details about the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid - the one which wiped out the dinosaurs - have been revealed after researchers created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor. Around 66 ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 once posed a threat to Earth. Now, NASA says it could hit the Moon in 2032. Here's how scientists tracked its path — and what's next.
Asteroid 2025 PM is around the size of three Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaurs. The asteroid won't hit the Earth, according to NASA ...