When a large dinosaur-killing asteroid struck the Earth approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub crater was formed. It is buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and has been ...

THE world’s oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback.

The impact caused the Chicxulub crater, on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. That asteroid was nearly 5,000-feet wide and made quick worth of the earth's giant reptilian population. The good news ...

Beneath the waters of Chesapeake Bay lies a massive secret that took decades to uncover. What once seemed like a normal stretch of water has been revealed as the site of a colossal impact crater, ...

The long, asymmetrical sides of the ripples slope south-southeast, pointing back to their source in the Chicxulub impact ...

The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a small town close to this point.

What a difference 30 minutes made! Barry Evans (he/him, [email protected]) is reminded that the odds against his birth ...

A giant crater smoldered on what would become known as the Yucatán Peninsula. Whether or not the asteroid or comet that carved the Chicxulub crater caused the extinction of more than half the ...

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Maybe you've heard about the asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The impact caused the Chicxulub ...

He said: "It would be near the diameter of the impact that resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs, Chicxulub crater, which is the second-largest impact structure on Earth. "So, it is likely ...