The asteroid responsible for our last mass extinction 66 million years ago — wiping out the dinosaurs — originated from the ...

Scientists investigating the asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs after slamming into the Earth 66 million years ago have released a new study suggesting that it formed "beyond the orbit of Jupiter." ...

Scientists have uncovered the "genetic fingerprint" of the dinosaur-killing Chicxulub impactor ... ago was a rare strike from an asteroid beyond Jupiter, a new study details.

But practically nothing of the asteroid itself remains. In a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers pieced together the chemical identity of the asteroid that fueled the ...

The asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs after slamming into the Earth 66 million years ago is believed to have come from beyond ...

The asteroid was likely nudged toward ... For instance, while the new study rules out that the dinosaur-killing space rock was a comet, which a 2021 study had suggested, scientists don't yet ...

But practically nothing of the asteroid itself remains. In a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers pieced together the chemical identity of the asteroid that fueled the ...

The element is a "genetic fingerprint" of rocks in the main asteroid belt ... crater to the dinosaur-killing asteroid decades ago and was not involved with the new study, told Live Science.