When a large dinosaur-killing asteroid struck the Earth approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub crater was formed. It is buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and has been ...

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.

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at ...

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted ... in a 900-square-mile area throughout the Gulf of Mexico, along with their varying formations along the upper shelf and ...

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 ...

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 Traps in ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

A study published today (April 1) in PNAS describes evidence from a fossil site in North Dakota that researchers say tells the tale of what happened on the day of the Chicxulub asteroid ... near the ...

A giant crater smoldered on what would become known as the Yucatán Peninsula. Whether or not the asteroid or comet that carved the Chicxulub crater caused the extinction of more than half the ...

flooding and atmospheric pollution in Mexico City, the Chicxulub crater and geologic time, ore deposits of Mexico. Lecture three hours; laboratory three hours. *Click on the first column in each table ...

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 ...