Scientists continue to uncover more evidence supporting the hypothesis despite the emergence of other theories.
Recent findings have led researchers to speculate on the impactor’s composition and origins.
A recentlypublishedstudy has shed more light on the cataclysm that ended the dinosaur era.

Furthermore, the asteroid likely formed beyond Jupiter’s orbit, in the solar system’s outer regions.
The new study reasserts the asteroid theory, but the researchers didn’t stop there.