Scientists have discovered that the near 9-mile diameter asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs also triggered a “mile high” tsunami that spread across the globe, according to EurekAlert.

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

For the first time, scientists have simulated how far and fast the Chicxulub asteroid, a.k.a. the one that killed the dinosaurs, impact spread around the globe. Besides wiping out the dinosaurs ...

Philippe Claeys Previous studies have unearthed chemical signatures in the K-Pg boundary that also implicated a carbonaceous asteroid in the death of the non-avian dinosaurs and about two thirds ...

About 66 million years ago, the reign of dinosaurs was brought to an end when an asteroid hit the earth. Most people are familiar with that part of the story, but that's not actually where it ends.

Earth’s most famous killer asteroid came from the outer reaches ... volcanic eruptions that have also been implicated in the dinosaurs’ demise (SN: 9/28/23). Most meteorites found on Earth ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, an asteroid collided with Earth and ... with Earth at the same time as the one that killed the dinosaurs. "The geophysical characteristics are, however, very ...

Around 66 million years ago, a rock over 6 miles wide collided with Earth, triggering the mass extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs and ... based asteroids in the asteroid belt that sits between ...

But for decades, scientists have debated finer details: Was the impactor an asteroid instead of a comet ... the doom of the dinosaurs and the dawn of mammals were set eons ago by the very ...

Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Earth, blasted debris everywhere, plummeted the planet into cold darkness, and ended the age of dinosaurs ... So the Chicxulub impactor that ...

The catastrophic destruction triggered by the asteroid hitting the Earth resulted in the death of all non-avian dinosaurs in an event termed the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction.