Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...

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.

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 ...

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Two immense canyons on the moon's far side that rival Earth's Grand Canyon were produced by a cataclysmic collision nearly ...

Few geological events fascinate as much as the one that happened 66 million years ago. Evidence suggests a huge asteroid hit our planet, triggering a chain of events that led to... Some 66 million ...

the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10-15 kilometer in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide impact crater. This impact triggered a ...

The authors estimated that the impact that formed the initial crater was equivalent to the one that formed the Chicxulub crater in the Gulf of Mexico. That event is widely considered to have played a ...

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 ...

A super-seismic upheaval, but how long ago?’ letter in the Leader dealt with the impact energy released when a meteor hit Earth and formed the 110-mile diameter ...

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 ...