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 ...

Boulder, CO, USA: When the Chicxulub asteroid slammed into Earth about 66 million years ago, it obliterated 80 percent of Earth's species, blasted out a crater 200 kilometers across, and signaled an ...

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.

Though an interesting read, and a compelling case, it lacked a little something; an impact crater. It would take another 10 years before samples from the Chicxulub crater were studied by Penfield.

Dr Rochette examined the site more closely and concluded that the impact of a meteor may have created ... The second biggest ...

An curved arrow pointing right. For the first time in history, a team of international scientists are drilling into the center of the underwater crater created by the asteroid that wiped out the ...

Geochemists have managed to link the fallout material directly to the so-called Chicxulub impact site in ... or more hours to reach the site from the crater, but seismic waves - and a subsequent ...

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

About 2.2 billion years ago, a massive meteorite left a crater ... Yarrabubba meteor wasn't the only space rock that changed Earth's climate. The 6-mile-wide asteroid that struck Chicxulub ...

Scientists have long accepted that an asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs. But there are myriad theories as to what, precisely, happened ...