The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

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Credit: Sato et al. A gravity anomaly map of the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan Peninsula. Credit: NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission "After the asteroid impact, the Gulf of Mexico records an ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

(Image Credit: Davide Bonadonna (www.davidebonadonna.it). Dinosaurs were living their best life, so legend goes, until the unwelcome arrival of a killer asteroid — Chicxulub — triggered an ...

A hydrothermal vent along the Mid-At­lantic Ridge. © Marum, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Around 66 million years ago ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

Scientists have revealed the unusual shape of a large asteroid with the potential to smack into the moon in the year 2032, according to new research. A team of astronomers recently studied the ...

Other studies point to the existence of an asteroid accomplice, which would have smacked into the ocean and triggered a tsunami shortly before or after the Chicxulub impactor. Less controversial ...

A new study challenges the belief that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact that ended their reign. Analysing 18 million years of fossil data, researchers argue that apparent drops ...