The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres in diameter. The collision was devastating: rocks from deep within Earth’s crust were raised 25 kilometres ...

A chilling simulation reveals the catastrophic outcome if the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth today, replicating the extinction-level event from 66 million years ago. Impact would instantly ...

Seventy-five percent of life on Earth was obliterated after the asteroid impact at Chicxulub, which took place 66 million years ago. Until now, scientists have proposed various theories about the ...