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.

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

"Impact of a large earth-crossing asteroid would inject about 60 times ... It would take another 10 years before samples from the Chicxulub crater were studied by Penfield. When he did, he found ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...

The Nadir crater is one of the most meticulously ... knockout blow delivered by the cataclysmic asteroid Chicxulub, which ...

The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for its role ... New Evidence of a Second Asteroid Impact A lesser-known crater, the Nadir, was discovered off the coast of West Africa ...

What intrigues scientists is the age of the crater: it coincides with that of Chicxulub, the asteroid linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Some estimate it could be a fragment of a larger ...

But an investigation into a crater off the coast of West Africa ... These extra details lend credence to the theory that while the Chicxulub asteroid did the bulk of the dinosaur-killing work ...

“So, the crater itself is about 9,200m ... Still, compared to the Mexican “Chicxulub” asteroid, the one responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs, it’s not as large in terms of the ...

“So, the crater itself is about 9,200m ... Still, compared to the Mexican “Chicxulub” asteroid, the one responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs, it’s not as large in terms of the ...

The Princeton model shows (at left) that the structure of the Earth's surface at the time of the meteorite impact that caused the Chicxulub crater in Mexico would have placed the Deccan Traps in ...