The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. And, until now, it had been assumed that the asteroid acted alone. This week, scientists at Scotland ...

One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

151; -- Scientists digging deep into the Gulf of Mexico say they have cracked into a crater, formed some 65 million years ago after a massive asteroid struck Earth. The 33 members of a team of ...

(CNN)-- A team of scientists has agreed that a giant asteroid ... Gulf of Mexico, said Richard Norris, a paleoceanographer at the University of California San Diego. The impact caused a crater ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...