"The immediate effects of a Bennu-sized asteroid impact would cause devastating damages around the impact site," Axel Timmermann ... Using supercomputer models, the researchers showed that ...

While the impact site was first identified ... simulations of an asteroid 7 kilometers wide crashing into an ice-covered Earth at 17 kilometers per second. The models revealed that such an impact ...

Scientists have discovered that a hydrothermal system created by the asteroid impact may have helped marine life flourish at the impact site by generating and circulating nutrients in the crater ...

According to the JPL's "more precise models of the asteroid’s trajectory," scientists came up with an updated impact probability ... on or use of this site constitutes agreement to its User ...

according to models developed by the researchers — and thus at low risk for extinction, barring a catastrophic event such as the asteroid impact. Rather, the Maastrichtian may have had poorer ...

When an international team of scientists studied that map, they found a 16-mile-wide, bowl-like depression - it looked like a giant asteroid impact crater. The scientists wanted to be sure ...

The generally accepted theory is that either an asteroid or ... is the largest cosmic impact witnessed by modern humans." Surprisingly, the first investigation of the site didn't happen until ...

A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences examined thousands of fossils. They found fewer accessible rocks from ...

A study published today (April 1) in PNAS describes evidence from a fossil site in North Dakota that researchers say ... all of which were deposited by large surges of water caused by the asteroid ...

In a major discovery, scientists have found fossilized remains that offer an incredible glimpse into the moments after the asteroid impact that ended the age of the dinosaurs. Buried deep at North ...