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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, impacted.

Now scientists have found extraordinary evidence which documents the colossal asteroid impact event. It was widely accepted that the Chicxulub meteorite impact was a major cause, as is evidenced by a ...

The space rocks, both estimated to be no larger than 5 miles (8 kilometers) wide, impacted Earth within 25,000 years of each ...

Two massive asteroid impacts 35.65 million years ago left significant craters but caused no long-term climate changes, ...

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 ...

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 ...