Within minutes of impact, debris began heating Earth’s atmosphere. Fine dust trapped that heat, potentially killing the ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, a colossal asteroid struck Earth, generating catastrophic global temperatures. As ...

Dinosaurs roasted to death in a hellish “oven” created by superheated dust when an asteroid hit Earth 66m years ago, scientists believe.

Researchers identified the Chicxulub impactor as an exceptionally rare type of asteroid that wouldn't have triggered a mass extinction in the way scientists previously thought.

Based on computer simulations and geologic evidence, scientists propose that the deadly event may have caused global ...

Purdue planetary scientists Brandon Johnson and Alexandria Johnson discovered that the Chicxulub impact created a global dust ...

For more than 160 million years, dinosaurs dominated life on Earth. They survived shifting continents, volcanic eruptions, ...

A meteorite 50 to 200 times more massive than the one linked to the dinosaurs struck Earth 3. 26 billion years ago.

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was likely an exceptionally rare CO chondrite from a distant region of the solar system. Its unusual chemistry suggests that planet-cooling dust and debris, ...

The dinosaurs may not have starved through a years-long winter. New evidence suggests a blanket of ultrafine impact dust set ...

After the Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago, trillions of tonnes of rock vapour was launched into space before falling ...

Researchers just uncovered more about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago - Findings really underscore ‘how unlucky the dinosaurs were,’ researcher says ...