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, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When it smashed into Earth "with the energy of about 8 billion times a World War II-era nuclear ...

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 -- ...

In September 2025, an X post (archived) viewed over 1 million times claimed the world's biggest meteorite impact crater was in Mexico and included a video of the purported site. The video and claim ...