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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The study highlights fossilized specimens, including fish, trees, and marine ammonites, all of which were deposited by large surges of water caused by the asteroid impact, which occurred near the ...

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