A team of researchers think they know the origin of a massive space rock that hit Earth and killed off almost all the dinosaurs 66 ... determine the dino-killing asteroid's origin, researchers ...

Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula and triggered the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs. Now, researchers have determined that the space rock ...

Though dinosaur extinction probably took weeks or months, in just one day, 425 feet of material accumulated where the asteroid hit with the power of 10 billion atomic bombs. The blast ignited ...

The finding suggests the dinosaur extinction came from an impact ... but also tons of terrestrial rock where the asteroid hit the Earth,” he said. The dust settled worldwide, from Europe ...

could have given the asteroid a nudge (an outcome called the "Yarkovsky effect"). Such a huge collision with Earth, however, is extremely rare. A "dinosaur-killing" impact from a rock perhaps a ...

That means the ruthenium found in the K-Pg layer came from the same meteorite that hit Chicxulub. How does this tie into the theory that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs? As the theory goes ...

Besides wiping out the dinosaurs, it changed much more than that about our planet. The asteroid hit the ocean in what is now the Gulf of Mexico, but it was so powerful that it ejected seafloor ...

But what if I told you that the dinosaurs were already doomed well before that asteroid hit? According to this new study, the dinosaurs were already doomed because sulfur levels in the atmosphere ...

When the asteroid struck in the Late Cretaceous, dinosaurs like Edmontosaurus ... near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 billion years ago.

The massive asteroid that brought about the end of the reign of the dinosaurs when it crashed into Earth 66m years ago was not a one-off, researchers say. Detailed scans of an underwater crater off ...

Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million ...

The asteroid that killed most dinosaurs 66 million years ago left behind ... think they know the origin of a massive space rock that hit Earth and killed off almost all the dinosaurs 66 million ...