The Chicxulub impact crater, located on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, is one of the most significant geological features on Earth, primarily due to its association with the mass extinction ...

Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...

The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a small town close to this point.

However, there's one unique location that outshines the rest ... The massive scar left by this impact is known as the Chicxulub Crater, and all the smaller sinkholes it has made form the ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...

An curved arrow pointing right. For the first time in history, a team of international scientists are drilling into the center of the underwater crater created by the asteroid that wiped out the ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10–15 kilometers in diameter, struck the Yucatán ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10-15 kilometer in diameter, struck the Yucatán ...

66 million years ago an asteroid hit the planet. Now an expedition is underway to drill 1500m into the crater it created - the Chicxulub asteroid impact crater, aiming to unearthing the secrets that ...

the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10-15 kilometer in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide impact crater. This impact triggered a ...