The most famous and well-studied impact occurred at the Chicxulub Crater off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico ... including Arizona’s Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, a kilometer ...

along with asteroid-specific minerals like iridium at the crater in Chicxulub, Mexico -- all but proving the asteroid theory. And now scientists have figured out where this dinosaur-killing rock ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

As a planetary geologist, my research focuses on meteorite impact craters ... is the 200 km-diameter Chicxulub impact crater in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. This impact wiped out 65 percent ...

Meteor Crater was created more than 50,000 years ago by a massive meteor strike near Winslow, Arizona. Visitors can experience the 550-foot-deep and nearly mile-wide cavity from an air-conditioned ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.