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 ...

Asteroid impacts have changed Earth's landscape time and time again. Some impacts caused great change to occur, like the ...

XA1, struck Earth on Dec. 3, 2024, burning up over Siberia. It's the 11th detected before impact. No damage was reported.

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 ...

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

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 ...

A sketch of the Chicxulub crater under the sea with the deep seafloor showing the different types of observed bioturbations (Ichnogenera), with photos from the studied cores. Courtesy Francisco J.

Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago, but did not lead to any lasting changes in the Earth’s ...

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 ...