For decades, the prevailing theory behind the mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has pointed to a ...

It is buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and has been identified as one of the largest impact craters on the planet. Within the crater, samples of rock were taken, and their ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by ... gases and fine dust blocked out the sun, causing an “impact winter” that lasted for 15 years. Sun-blocking dust ...

On a spring day some 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid smashed down just north of what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. This sudden impact created tsunamis stretching one mile ...

This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula. Scientists calculate ... Scientists have concluded that the impact that created this crater occurred 65 million years ago.

The Earth bears geologic evidence of past cosmic impacts, such as the 125-mile-wide Chixculub Crater in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, which was the likely impact site of the 6-mile-wide asteroid ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

A giant crater smoldered on what would become known as the Yucatán Peninsula. Whether or not ... An extraterrestrial impact or a bout of volcanism from within was perhaps too much for many ...

It was widely accepted that the Chicxulub meteorite impact was a major cause, as is evidenced by a vast 93 mile wide crater beneath the Yucatan Peninsula. This is possibly the best known of the five ...