This is the feature that is now buried under sediments in the Gulf of Mexico, close to the port of Chicxulub. The impact description - scientists call it the dynamic collapse model of crater ...

Impact breccia: The rock recovered from the Chicxulub Crater tells a story Scientists have a recording of the worst day on Earth; certainly the worst day in the last 66 million years. It takes 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 ...

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

The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, famously wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs and left a huge crater at the edge of the ...

66 million years ago an asteroid hit the planet. Now an expedition is underway to drill 1500m into the crater it created - the Chicxulub asteroid impact crater, aiming to unearthing the secrets that ...