But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site created by the six-mile-wide asteroid, geologists have ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...