When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after ...

66 million years ago, a large asteroid crashed into Earth near Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, sparking a frigid global winter that led to the mass extinction of dinosaurs who had reigned over the planet ...

The Chicxulub impact structure in Mexico is widely believed to be the site of the asteroid impact that allegedly killed the dinosaurs. As Sergio de Régules reports, scientists are now preparing to ...

Computer simulations have revealed that a vast region of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, may have behaved like a fluid during the formation of the Chicxulub impact crater. Gareth Collins, a ...

The Chicxulub Crater is located off the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and is believed to be caused by an asteroid 66 million years ago that measured six miles wide. The impact was catastrophic for life ...

A large asteroid (~12 km in diameter) hit Earth 66 million years ago, likely causing the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Credit: Southwest Research Institute/Don Davis A large asteroid (~12 km in ...

Researchers measured the temperature of the Chicxulub crater 66 million years ago, unlocking mysteries of the dinosaur-dooming mass extinction event. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

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66 million years ago, a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid slammed into Earth near modern-day Mexico, creating the Chicxulub Crater. What followed was a planetary disaster - tsunamis a kilometer high, ...