the Chicxulub crater was formed. It is buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and has been identified as one of the largest impact craters on the planet. Within the crater, samples of ...

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by ... Sun-blocking dust from asteroid impact drove the dinosaur extinction The Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago filled ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

What a difference 30 minutes made! Barry Evans (he/him, [email protected]) is reminded that the odds against his birth ...

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid thought to be around 12 kilometers (7.4 miles) in diameter impacted the Earth, forming a crater 200 kilometers (120 miles) in diameter, and 1 kilometer (0.62 ...

Researchers uncover the oldest asteroid crater in Australia, revealing its role in shaping Earth’s ancient climate.

The Chicxulub ... asteroid impact might have occurred around the same time, causing additional devastation. New Evidence of a Second Asteroid Impact A lesser-known crater, the Nadir ...

Caption The Princeton model shows (at left) that the structure of the Earth's surface at the time of the meteorite impact that caused the Chicxulub crater in Mexico would have placed the Deccan ...

Seismic data reveals megaripples in Louisiana, formed by the Chicxulub asteroid’s tsunami 66 million years ago.

An impact crater is an approximately circular depression ... perhaps causing the Chicxulub impact that may have triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.