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 ...

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 ...

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

Sixty six million years ago, just off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in what is now the North East coast of modern Mexico, and a herd of spectacular creatures is on the move. About thirty ...

The Yucatán Peninsula is a land where ancient history and raw geology meet. Beneath its flat limestone plains lie endless caves, underground rivers, and cenotes—natural wells that sustained the Maya ...

ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite images the verdant Yucatán peninsula, once home to the Maya civilization and the site of the impact believed to have doomed the dinosaurs. As part of the Atlantic Hurricane ...

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 ...

A video accurately identifies the world largest meteorite impact crater as being in Mexico. The claim that the world's biggest impact crater is in Mexico was false. The video does not show the world's ...

The world’s largest asteroid impact structure could be buried deep in southern New South Wales in Australia, scientists suspect. The record for the largest known asteroid crater on Earth is currently ...