Some 66 million years ago, a 6-mile-wide asteroid crashed into Earth near what today is Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, wiping ...

It is the first global simulation of the Chicxulub asteroid impact tsunami. In addition to showing the conditions in which ...

Studies have shown that the planet-wide mega-Tsunami killed roughly three-quarters of the planet’s plant and animal species.

The asteroid not only create a fireball and the Chicxulub crater underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, it triggered a ...

The rock came closest to the southern tip of South America at around 8.29am Singapore time on Friday. Read more at ...

The rock, which was spotted for the first time on Saturday by an amateur stargazer in Crimea, came closest to the southern ...

At its nearest point, the asteroid was just 2,200 miles from Earth's surface — just a quarter of the height of many of the ...

At its nearest point, the asteroid was just 2,200 miles (3,600 kilometers) from Earth's surface -- just a quarter of the ...