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 ...

It’s thought that the huge Chicxulub crater in the Gulf of Mexico was caused by a 6 miles/10 kilometers diameter asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs.

They cannot date the event exactly, or say whether it came before or after the asteroid which left the 180km-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico. That one ended the reign of the dinosaurs. But they ...

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 ...

Study coauthor Chris Lowry, a postdoc at the University of Texas, and colleagues made the discovery after analyzing rock samples taken from beneath Chicxulub crater, which sits in the Gulf of Mexico ...

This can be seen first-hand with sites like the 66-million-year-old Chicxulub crater in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (thought to be the reason for mass dinosaur extinction) and the 50,000-year-old ...

The discovery of two Grand Canyons on the moon and analysis of the lunar south pole area will prepare astronauts for Artemis ...

Scientists have long accepted that an asteroid that struck ... given that the crater extends 12 miles into the depths of the Gulf of Mexico. Gulick and his colleague, Joanna Morgan, collected ...