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 ...

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

A city-size asteroid impacted the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, creating the 200km-wide Chicxulub crater. This impact caused widespread environmental devastation, including global sunlight ...

Analysis of samples collected from the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact site has revealed that cataclysmic asteroid impacts can cause a planet’s surface to behave like a fluid. About 66 million years ...

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 day a massive asteroid hit our planet about 65 million years ago may have been the most chaotic day on Earth, and we’re not just talking about the mass extinction part. New research on the ...

Earth's ocean floor is notoriously less researched than Mars' surface. With no prior studies and findings, a team of scientists recently found what seems to be an asteroid strike crater while mapping ...

Les Listes indicatives des États parties sont publiées par le Centre du patrimoine mondial sur son site Internet et/ou dans les documents de travail afin de garantir la transparence et un accès aux ...

When the Chicxulub asteroid slammed into Earth about 66 million years ago, it obliterated 80 percent of Earth's species, blasted out a crater 200 kilometers across, and signaled an abrupt end to the ...

Though covered by hundreds of feet of sand and rock, the crater remains the same as it was at the end of the Cretaceous, 66 million years ago. ByConor Gearin Tuesday, May 3, 2016 NOVA NextNOVA Next ...