About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico, forming the Chicxulub crater. This impact wiped out ...

Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Chicxulub Impact Crater, located on the Yucatán Peninsula, represents one of Earth’s most significant impact structures and offers a unique window into catastrophic processes that reshaped the ...

The great mass extinctions -- The impact hypothesis -- The controversy -- In search of the crater -- The discovery of Chicxulub crater -- Scenario of a catastrophe -- Impacts and other extinctions -- ...

A video accurately identifies the world largest meteorite impact crater as being in Mexico. Rating: Miscaptioned (About this rating?) In September 2025, an X post (archived) viewed over 1 million ...

Scientists have found proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago causing a huge tsunami and leaving a 1.9 mile (3km) wide crater under the seabed. The Silverpit Crater is ...

In 1992, scientists found the "smoking gun:" the roughly 120-mile-wide (200 kilometers) Chicxulub crater off of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. Then in 2013, a meteor the size of a semitrailer breached ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck Earth around 66 million years ago was huge — around 7 ...