an asteroid the size of a city collided with Earth. The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres in diameter. The collision was devastating: rocks from ...

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would ...

The Chicxulub asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs ... But what's the likelihood of an asteroid of that size coming into contact with Earth again? The following is from NASA's website: Every ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid ... proportion of sulfur-bearing rocks at the impact location, the size, velocity, and impact angle of the asteroid, and the resulting ...